How Aggie, unhinged by grief, was calmed by a psychiatrist pretending to be a dog
Aggie’s twin sister had died a couple of months before. Initial grief had given way to sleeplessness and increasingly erratic…
By Phil Whitaker
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Mary’s swollen face was not the result of ten rounds with a boxer – maybe soft fruit was to blame
“You’re allergic to something.” “I thought so,” she said. “But I haven’t changed my washing powder or anything.”
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How Alastair Campbell is confronting Westminster’s mental health crisis
When Alastair Campbell was 29 years old, he experienced what he describes today as “a full-on psychotic breakdown”. Depleted by long…
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Jack Dorsey’s 5-meals-a-week diet looks a lot like a Silicon Valley-style eating disorder
Every day of the working week, I anxiously check WhatsApp for updates on “beef strip boy”. My friend who works…
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I’d have forgotten so much were it not for my diary, a 253-page Word document I’ve kept for six years
In 1 January 2014, I went to the local cinema to see The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and convinced the…
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How the Home Office refused a dying woman’s wish
Practising in a semi-rural location in the south-west of England I have few jet-setting patients, but Nell is one exception.…
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Has Jeremy Hunt changed his mind on unilaterally imposing a new junior doctors’ contract?
The health secretary appears to be backing away from claims he is prepared to impose a new contract without the…
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Personal Story: Why I long to be vaccinated
The cognitive dissonance surrounding anti-vaxxers doesn’t simply reflect a mistrust of science, but a failure to situate oneself in another…
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