Srinagar, May 1 -- By Faizaan Bashir

Kashmir's young people speak through analysis. They study their fears with clinical precision, trace emotional patterns to childhood memories, and explain every tremor of the mind with startling clarity.

Discussions drift toward attachment wounds, emotional triggers, abandonment fears, and nervous exhaustion.

Social media feeds pulse with psychological jargon. Therapy terms enter tea-shop discussions with ease.

A strange contradiction emerges from this culture of constant introspection: people understand themselves deeply and still remain trapped inside the same pain.

Self-awareness promises freedom, but experience tells a harsher story.

Many young men and women spend years examining every emotio...