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by Sapna Pradhan, February 1, 2026 Anxiety is genetic. Some people are just “wired this way.” We tend to talk about anxiety as if it’s an inheritance—an unavoidable permanency that’s quietly passed down through DNA. If your parents are anxious, you will be too. If you are “wired this way,” the best thing you can do is manage it. People will say that anxiety runs in families, and others will say people are just born anxious. This belief is strangely comforting because it clear

by Sapna Pradhan, January 18, 2026 Students often boast about getting by on 4 hours of sleep, pulling all-nighters, or “sleeping when they’re dead” as if it’s a power move, framing exhaustion as a badge of honor in high-achieving culture. In a classroom before a test, students compare how little they slept before the exam, while at the same time, professionals joke about living on caffeine. While success is often associated with sacrifice, sleep deprivation has quietly become

by Sapna Pradhan, Jan 4, 2026 A student opens ChatGPT for an English essay to “just get started.” Within seconds, the blank page is filled. It’s faster writing, less stress, and polished results. AI feels like a miracle, but what is convenience costing us cognitively? Does this introduce cognitive debt where short-term ease creates long-term intellectual consequences?

By Sapna Pradhan, Dec 22, 2025 A student can graph a parabola, but can’t explain what inflammation, deductible, or hypertension actually mean. Teens are navigating a world filled with medical misinformation, health apps, insurance systems, and online system content, yet they receive almost no formal education on health issues. Schools should treat medical literacy as a core academic subject, on par with math, English, and science, because it equips students with essential lif