Tag: Mental health
Fixing relationship problems: A guide to reconnecting with your partner
To fix relationship problems and reconnect, you must break destructive communication cycles, address underlying emotional needs, and rebuild trust through consistent honesty. Couples therapy, including intercultural counseling, helps partners navigate life transitions and cultural differences. Additionally, practicing active listening and small daily connection exercises restores intimacy while maintaining individual identities. Fixing relationship problems often starts…
The Price of Success: Why High Performers in HCMC Struggle with Loneliness
High performers in Ho Chi Minh City struggle with social isolation because achievement-contingent self-worth drives them to prioritise self-validation over vulnerable connections. Urban stressors and a lack of bonding social capital worsen this loneliness. Overcoming it requires adopting learning goals, taking relational risks, and seeking spaces like group therapy to foster unconditional acceptance. High performer…
Feeling lonely in Ho Chi Minh City, late at night
Loneliness is the gap between the connection you have and the connection you need, which is why a full calendar does not close it. What happens to that gap after midnight, and what the research says actually helps.
Beyond the Monad: The Evolution of Group Analysis
The evolution of group analysis shifted psychotherapy from treating the isolated individual to healing people within an interconnected social matrix. Pioneered by S.H. Foulkes, this framework integrated sociology and Gestalt psychology. It expanded over decades to address severe personality disorders via mentalizing techniques and macro-social trauma through large-scale civic dialogue. For a long time, psychoanalysis…
The “Mentalizing” Workout: How to Build Stronger Connections Through Group Therapy
Mentalizing is the capacity to understand the underlying thoughts, emotions, and intentions driving human behaviour. To build stronger connections and heal strained relationships, you can strengthen this mental muscle through group therapy. Utilizing structured approaches like DBT and MBT provides a safe practice ground to regulate sudden emotions, cultivate epistemic trust, and restore your social…
What actually changes in a group
Group therapy overcomes loneliness by providing universality, dismantling isolation, and serving as a safe social laboratory to practice relational skills. Sharing burdens with peers dissolves shame, offers diverse perspectives, and builds community accountability, effectively transforming shared experiences into a powerful framework for lasting emotional healing and meaningful connection. If it is late and you feel…
