The Right to Die
On 24 February 2022, the first day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, two Russian warships attacked Snake Island. When the Moskva warship demanded that the crew defending the island surrender…
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Mental Health
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Psychotherapy: Gaps in Our Knowledge
Our understanding of psychotherapy is as fragmented and distorted as the proverbial blind men’s understanding of the elephant. For one thing, we lack reliable data about how many people practise…
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Salvaging Mental Health Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic
Mental health is health is an aphorism with which young Canadians have grown familiar over the past decade. The sentiment has been reiterated by high school teachers, professors, counsellors, family…
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What Happened to the Mental Health Crisis among Younger People?
Before Covid-19 struck, mainstream media were constantly raising the alarm about a mental health crisis among younger people. However, during this pandemic, the mantra protect the NHS has been drummed…
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GTFO: What “The Social Dilemma” Gets Right and Gets Wrong
At the very beginning of the popular new Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, a mélange of former big tech employees, gurus and whistleblowers are asked: What is the problem with…
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Mental Health and Homicide: Progressive Ideology Meets Political Expediency
Mentally disturbed people commit over a hundred homicides every year in Britain. In simplified reasoning, the motives for such killings are beyond comprehension—to a court of justice and perhaps to…
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The Benefits of Loneliness
In 2017, then British prime minister Theresa May appointed Tracey Crouch to the newly created position of Minister for Sport, Civil Society and Loneliness. Crouch became the head of an…
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Why Critical Social Justice Activism Could Increase Suicide Risk
No death impacts others in the way a suicide does. With a death by suicide come shame, guilt and many questions—the most prominent of which is why? But sometimes we…
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Covid-19 and the Coming Campus Mental Health Crisis
Photo by Andrik Langfield The psychological effects of the Covid-19 pandemic are severe, and underestimating them may be disastrous for our college campuses.In a Pew survey conducted in late March, 18%…
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Coronavirus and Social Interaction
Lenin once said, “There are decades in which nothing happens; and there are weeks in which decades happen.” Never has this quotation been more pertinent than now, during the Covid-19…
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The Importance of Taking Personal Responsibility for One’s Mental Health
Following the recent death of a popular British personality by suicide, there has been an outpouring of emotion on social media. Alongside tributes from the public and celebrities—often captioned with…
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YouTube Nerd Essays and Mental Health: A Paean
If you have been engulfed by the all-consuming black hole that is depression or anxiety, or have found yourself peering over its event horizon, then you may be fortunate enough…
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Culture-Bound Syndromes: Satanic Panics, Multiple Personality Disorder & ROGD
On 6 September, at the District Court in Sydney, Australia, Richard Haynes was sentenced to forty-five years in prison for sexually abusing and torturing his daughter, Jeni. The case made…
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Minds Without Bodies: Transgenderism and the Authentic Self
Jazz Jennings, teenage transgender superstar, turns to the camera: “To all of the kids out there who are hearing this book for the first time, I just want to say…
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The Codification of Sex and the Problem with Sex Addiction
There is an old joke in psychological circles that a sex addict is someone who is having more sex than his therapist. If we accept that—as psychoanalysis claims—every joke contains…
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Gaming Disorder: The World Health Organisation Jumps the Shark
Earlier this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced plans to include gaming disorder—video gaming that interferes with other life responsibilities—in their International Classification of Diseases (ICD)—despite considerable controversy, including…
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Die Loser: Why We Are Killing Ourselves More, and What’s the Cure?
We are killing ourselves more than we used to. According to both the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the UK Department of Health, suicides rates have doubled…
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Impeachment: Can We Trust Mental Health Experts Who Claim that Trump is Mentally Ill?
The words used to describe Donald Trump include businessman, narcissist, liar, racist, sexist, reality TV star and president of the United States. Trump has stirred up a lot of controversy…
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