When your parents don’t understand you
They love you, and they seem to understand nothing about your life. Why the gap between generations feels so wide, and how to talk so your parents can actually hear you.
For students and young adults in Pakistan: board exam and MDCAT stress, career choices made by parents, unemployment after a degree, hostel loneliness, breakups and late-night scrolling. Practical guidance from psychologist Zahid Sohail.
They love you, and they seem to understand nothing about your life. Why the gap between generations feels so wide, and how to talk so your parents can actually hear you.
Hundreds of applications, a few interviews, no offers. And everyone asking. How to cope with unemployment after your degree without losing yourself.
You got the visa, the place, the job. Nobody mentioned the silence. Why the second year is often harder than the first.
Avoidance in exam season is anxiety, not laziness. Why the book feels impossible to open, and what gets students moving again.
Medicine, engineering, CSS. When the decision was made before you had an opinion, how to work out what you want and how to say it.