Yes I have been there last year. My sole purpose was to learn sudarshan kriya and I found it very helpful to control my stress and anxiety . Food is okayish but you will love the vibe and will definitely see a change in your personality for sure .

Software Developer

Learn Sudarshan kriya. It is a great tool for our generation especially.

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I recently moved to Bangalore and almost immediately went into a zone of persistently feeling sad and hopeless. I refused to take antidepressants. I am doing slightly better after few sessions of therapy, but I want to know some other alternatives? Anybody experienced the same thing? What makes it better? Bangalore feels like a culture-less city tbh.

Depression is common in Bangalore?

Product Manager

Planning to do a long yoga and meditation retreat. I see most of them are tooo expensive. Any one here who has been to one and can recommend.

Yoga and meditation retreats

Can someone suggest a good therapist in Bangalore… not the online ones 
A reliable one where we can sit comfortably and talk

Therapist in Bangalore

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Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

My brain is an over-reacting type. Since the past 2 years, I have been planning, at this point I don't even know what since it has no outcome, various things, job change, going for higher education, promotions etc. 

Got nothing, and am just done done. My brain just constantly hurts now. Want a detox to clear my brain, to start with all this again 🤕

Travel doesn't seem to be an option right now.

Want to detox my brain. Suggest some ways

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Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

Ideally you're doing your job because you love it, but that doesn't mean you're never overwhelmed or stressed out. When the pressure of your job pushes your stress needle into the red zone, what do you do to relax and compose yourself?

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(irrespective of whether it's a weekday or weekend)

Don't suggest to find a hobby. That piece of advice is really easy, but finding a hobby is really difficult.

So what are some things that we can do on free time in Bengaluru, where people don't flex their career in front of others?

What are somethings that people can do in Bangalore?

Has someone else also felt this that the weekends feel too lonely and saddening. I go to office 5 days a week have good set of work friends across team (the people in my fellowship), go to gym and hangout with people in PG.
But boom as weekend is here there is no work no Gym no friends in office or pG to hangout with.
Friday night I pass with playstation games but Saturday becomes like a helll for me.
I forcibly motivate myself to give a mock test on Sunday and end the weekend but weekend is like the worst part of my week.
Anyone else facing it or tips to make it better

Weekend Lonilness

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I’m seeking therapy for quite some time now, but it ain’t helping me much (read: at all). I understand that it may sometimes takes many attempts to find the right therapist. Parallels, I want to do everything I could do for my mental health. Any suggestions what could work? Any mental health course recommendations, if that worked out for you?

What worked for you when therapy didn’t seem to?

Data analyst

Feeling worried all the time

I am 28 year old, unmarried and staying at Bangalore working at Cognizant

Problems in my life

1. I am fighting with my own parents because I love a guy from different religion.
He is my school mate and very good person. We both are at IT firm. He earns 38LPA and I earn 16LPA. Financially we are good and we both have very good understanding of each other.

2. I have health issues like pcod , thyroid, gas trouble and digestion issues. Constantly taking tablets and feeling exhausted all the time.

3. I have very toxic work culture at office. My manager literally forces us to work like hell. She doesn't concern about our health issues and treats like robots.

I am always thinking about work and getting anxiety issues. Currently I feel like taking break from everything and focus on myself but money is also important because i want to financially independent.
My brain is constantly worried thinking about future like work, health and money. Nothing really helps me and I feel worried all the time.

Anxiety, depression issues in personal and professional life

Senior Data Enginee

Has anyone's mental health been affected due to wfh or social isolation? How do you cope up? Don't tell me exercise, I do that or surround myself with nature .
How do you cope up with overthinking subconsciously

Social isolation !

I am 24F, went to Vipassana to get clarity on various aspects of life. Physically and mentally I am absolutely healthy. Assuming that the ones who are reading this are aware of what Vipassana is. 

My learning- 
1. It’s never Path A vs Path B and either if it is correct. It’s always Path A with High risk High Reward and Path B with Less risk and Less reward. 
2. The technique strengthens you to choose the Higher risk path
3. You are not required to speak always. I am more self aware and avoid speaking where it’s waste of energy. This creates less chaos in mind. 


What Changed -
1. You do get a lot clarity in your thoughts 
2. Increased focus. I do advanced asana of Yoga which requires concentration to balance. I am able to hold them longer now. 
3. My food and sleep schedule has changed entirely- I sleep between 10pm - 6am. My last meal is completed before 7pm
4. I am doing things mindfully - speaking, eating, scrolling, sleeping. I tell my myself/my mind when to stop and start. Earlier i would scroll mindlessly or sleep when my body gave up etc. 

I did feel lonely, cried sometimes felt like running out. I even talked to the Guruji about letting me go. I had seen a lot of videos before going which mentioned that you will have all these feeling, but just don’t quit. 

 Didn’t talk about technique or 10 day schedule since that is v much available over internet. If anyone in the Grapevine community is interested to know more, I am happy writing more about it. Overall please do visit the camp whenever you get a chance, actually as early as possible. 

“Bhavtu Sabba Mangalam”

My 10 day Vipassana Meditation Camp

Product Marketing Manager

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Been thinking about going for an international trip lately. Asked a bunch of friends, but it looks like it's just gonna be me. Anyone here who has travelled solo? Thoughts on those "Make My Trip" packages? Or any other cool recommendations?

Traveling alone

Security engineer

I shifted back to my home after having a happening life for 1 year. My main motivation for wfh was living with my parents as they are getting old, and having time for myself. Now I have time but I just waste it away in OTT and social media. What can I do to be productive? How can I start learning something new or work on a side project? How do I break the wheel of comfort and start?

Spending time in WFH

Okay, so this happened to me last year. I was approached by a college alumni (got my number from college alumni group) who told me he had a side business going on which was leading him to earn more money than his corporate job and that he was going to leave the corporate for his “business”.

I was initially not interested but he was insistent and also I was looking to explore some options (may be my naïveté) that I asked him more and so he setup a call with his senior to explain more about this “business”.

Now this senior gave all sorts of gyaan regarding how to reach financial independence and picking up on the general mindset of how to make more money. They asked to create a list of 10 things that I desired the most at the point of time which could be solved with more money. I complied thinking it was a good exercise (again, I was a big fool). Now I was connected with another senior who gave all sorts of gyaan regarding how I could make more money and lead to financial independence.

Please note, during all this time I was constantly asking what the business idea was and how it would be achieved but got no response on the details and only white washing regarding how I should be prepared to do anything to achieve my dreams.

Now, it was revealed that I would need to put in 5L as investment to get bigger returns. Since I did not have that money in handy, I was suggested to get a personal loan through their agents. Also not to inform this to parents because they won’t understand this stuff and get “worried”. Luckily I did went with their suggestion and informed my parent about it. Thinking it was a startup idea, I got the investment from my father through an OD in my name.

Now we get onto a call two days later, where they reveal the company QNet and makes me purchase 5L of stuff from their website and explained the business model which was to get other people from your knowing to buy products from this company and get commissions on the sale.

Continued……

Pyramid scheme scam

Hey guys,

Waa going through some severe anxiety issues which always leads me into negative thinking spiral and some past issues. 

Could you guys recommend me a therapist which you feel has been extremely helpful for you?

I would prefer only online mode for sessions.

Any therapist recommendation?

Out on a walk and the weather is all grey,
Saw a Gulmohar Tree blooming with beautiful red flowers.

Chose to sit down on a bench in the garden, 
While sipping some Rasna, saw some kids hurling stones towards a Mango Tree.

They were hoping to get some Mangoes, still green and waiting to ripen but that wouldn’t stop them.

And I wondered, our old social circle has now dispersed, some went abroad to study and others work in different cities. 

Some friends even live in the same city and you meet them for drinks or food sometimes.

But we seldom do anything outside of Food, Drinks and Music. Can’t think of anything outside of these three things that you and your friends do.

Maybe, I’ll take some initiative and explore more group sports. Because, I don’t want my weekends to be the same bar with the same food and the same music on loop for the rest of my youth.

What about you all? What do you guys do on the weekend outside of this?

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