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03/01/2026•Human Experience

Why Your New Year's Resolutions Keep Failing (And What's Actually Going On)

It's January. You've made the list. By February, you'll have quietly abandoned most of it. This isn't a failure of willpower. It's something else entirely.

13/12/2024•Human Experience

What Borderline Personality Disorder Actually Feels Like

Someone you've been dating for three weeks doesn't text back for two hours and your brain goes: 'They hate me. I'll die alone.' That's BPD.

15/04/2024•Human Experience

The Exhaustion of Passing

You've become so good at reading the room that you forgot you were doing it. The scanning, the adjusting, the constant translation - it feels like breathing now.

24/10/2023•Human Experience

Leadership and Mental Health: Why Leaders Struggle in Silence

You're drowning, but everyone else is looking to you for a life raft. That's the particular hell of leadership when your mental health is falling apart.

24/12/2022•Human Experience

Your Misery Is Ruining Christmas

Christmas isn't hard because of money or grief or loneliness - though all of those are real. Christmas is hard because other people need you to be hap...

22/12/2022•Human Experience

Online Therapy for Expats: When Your Entire Identity Gets Lost in Translation

Moving abroad doesn't just change your postcode - it demolishes everything you thought you knew about yourself. The Identity Crisis No One Warns You ...

09/01/2021•Human Experience

When 'Too Much' Was Always About Them, Not You

You've been told you're too much your entire life. Too sensitive, too intense, too loud, too quiet, too literal, too emotional, too rigid.

21/04/2020•Human Experience

When Grief Gets Stuck

It's been two years. Or five. Or twelve. And something about this loss still hasn't settled.

04/11/2019•Human Experience

Your Panic Attacks Aren't Random

The first one came out of nowhere. At least that's what you told yourself, and A&E, and your GP.