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The date was December 3rd 2024 when my fourth psychosis hit. There were no warning signs. I was sitting by my desk, listening to the opera Vide cor meum from Hannibal, and starring into the gaze of Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Lecter. Ben was playing Remnant…

Sensory gating is the process by which the brain filters out irrelevant stimuli from the meaningful one. It prevents an overload of information in the higher cortical centres in the brain. The process is central to explaining the delusions and hallucinations in schizophrenia. Sensory gating…

For the past few weeks, I've been drinking a lot and it's left me with the blues. Shots of Jameson on the night shift, followed by more shots after the night shift in a bartender's bar. It's often daylight out by the time I make…

I wrote my second-year thesis in the history of ideas about education and child-rearing - specifically, the pedagogic ideas about freedom represented by the Scottish educator A.S. Neill. He started publishing books in the 1920s and took a radical approach to child-rearing. Children should be…

I was really happy the other day when someone told me that an old colleague that used to work with us was coming back to the pub. I'll call him Quito. He's young at just 21 and a refugee from Venezuela so he hasn't had…