The screen doesn’t soften the blow: online hostility, digital cruelty and the psychological cost of “just words”
There was a time when cruelty required proximity. Someone had to stand in front of you, look you in the eye, and choose to say something designed to wound. Today, all it takes is a keyboard, a username, and a moment of emotional impulsivity. Online hostility has become so woven into digital culture that many […]
Why discrimination makes no sense from a mental health perspective (healthy mental health)
From a mental health point of view, xenophobia, homophobia, racism and other forms of discrimination are not signs of psychological strength or social awareness. Quite the opposite, they often reflect emotional simplification, unresolved fear and the individual’s inability to tolerate complexity. Healthy psychological functioning requires nuance. It requires the ability to see individuals as individuals […]
When Love was killed
There was a time when love was the pulse of a relationship, the quiet, unspoken language between two people who simply chose each other. Not because it made financial sense, not because it looked good on paper, not because the mortgage was easier to split in two but because it felt right. Those days feel […]
Healthcare under attack: when hospitals become battlefields in conflict zones
In conflict after conflict, from Gaza to Sudan, one horrifying pattern has reappeared again and again: hospitals under attack, medical staff being targeted, patients being killed in their beds. What was once thought of as an outrage, an emergency rarely happening in “modern war,” is becoming tragically common. And in 2024, according to multiple reporting […]
