Sai Subramaniam

Feeling is the wider word and emotion the contested one. What Damasio, LeDoux and Russell each mean, and a one-line test for your own state.

How to keep a one line a day journal for years: where to keep it, what to write, what to do after a missed day, and how to read it back.

How to write a eulogy in sixteen small steps: gather stories, shape them, draft out loud, and plan for the day, including what to do if your voice goes.

Twenty CBT techniques with steps you can do alone: thought records, behavioral activation, worry time and sleep. What each will not do, and when to see a therapist.

A psychiatrist is a medical doctor who can prescribe. A therapist is one of several licensed professions. Which to book first, without deciding on medication.

Empathy is feeling with someone, sympathy is feeling for them. Example lines for each, and why research says sympathy is the one linked to helping.

The US government measures loneliness and almost nobody uses the figure. The real rate by age, computed from the CDC’s own 2024 file, and why others say 60%.

Forty-eight grief journal prompts in two directions, facing the loss and facing the life around it. Each with why it helps and how to answer it.

Thirty things to say to someone who is dying, sorted by where the illness is, each with why it lands and when it is the wrong line.

Thirty things to say when someone’s pet dies, sorted by where they are in it, each with why it lands and when it is the wrong line.