Psychology & Neurodiversity

There are whole books on psychology that don't get anywhere near this paragraph from Dostoevsky

Is Family Enmeshment Really Pathological? | Psychology Today https://share.google/qDBKtzYDfurxqFB5X

When allah stands beside us, even storms bow in silence.

Anyone here has OCD? Did you tell anyone or were you afraid of social stigma ? How did your friends / family / partner / ex partner react to it? How are you dealing with it at the moment ? In my case I have obsessive thoughts and rituals but fortunately medication was effective and got them suppressed. Recently (January 2026) I returned to medication again but I spent the last five years without them and inshallah I will wean off the med (with supervision) soon.

The Things We Pretend Not to Need
Have you ever noticed...
The words we remember most are rarely the longest.
Sometimes they are just,
"I thought of you."
"Take your time."
"I am glad you are here."
It's true, isn't it?
We spend years convincing ourselves that we do not need encouragement.
Then someone offers a few sincere words...
and suddenly the day feels lighter.
Lately, I have been wondering...
Perhaps strength is not pretending we need no one.
Perhaps strength is knowing that Allah created us with hearts that can be lifted by kindness.
We praise grand gestures.
Yet it is often the smallest ones that stay.
A gentle word.
A patient ear.
A prayer made in someone's absence.
Maybe we pretend not to need them...
because admitting we do feels like weakness.
When, perhaps, it is simply part of being human.

this is your reminder...try to get into a nice meaningful conversation this weekend that's you've might've otherwise not have had

From Synapse: Subjects rated their own personality twice, 3 weeks apart, on the Big Five Inventory (John & Srivastava, 1999; as ≥ .92), and informants rated
subjects' personality on the same inven-tory.

To obtain a multimethod measure of personality, we then averaged self-reports and informant reports.

Results were consistent with prior research (Diener & Seli an. 2002) in that higher well-being was associated with spending less time alone, r=-.35, and more time talking to others, r= .31.

This is because Allah never changes a favour which He has conferred upon a people until they change their own condition — and because Allah is Hearing, Knowing —Holy Quran 8:53 📖📿🤲🏾☕️

Hi

Perform your prayers. wear the perfume. get dressed up. romanticize your own life. chase your goals. learn something new. take care of your body. rest without guilt. laugh more. create beautiful memories. fall in love with your own company. make every ordinary day feel a little special.

what's something you've stopped chasing...
and became happier because of it?
I'll go first
Looking for love
The day I stopped chasing it, I made more room to fall in love with Allah, myself, and the life He is writing for me.