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Kate Spicer says Sort Yourself Out

eu·pho·ri·a (yū-fōr'ē-ă), 1. A feeling of well-being. 2. The pleasure state induced by a drug or substance of abuse.

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A USELESS LOVE STORY

On a canal boat moored outside a tube station, we sat on our sore vaginas and contemplated a Christmas card written to “Daddy”

A Conversation with a Professor at King’s College about Drugs for ADHD

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I do not have the ADHD, I am just plain useless.

On navigating shame, and the ideological capture that keeps the ADHD is a myth fires burning. How a Channel 4 documentary diagnosed us all anew. I have ADHD no more. I have something called "problems in living".

Two weeks without Dad. 'Borings' from the Heavens

What does two weeks of life without Dad feel like?

When Monday Goes Wrong

My Dumb Ass World of Wellnessmessing. Welcome to it

Don't let words get in the way of a good wine

I used to be a rubbish wine critic because I didn't know all the special wine words. People didn't like it. I've learned now, just shut up and drink

David Sullivan and my part in his downfall (taking too long)

I've previous with the pint-sized superrich perve who made his grubby billions on sex phone lines, porn and newspapers famed for publishing bollocks for news in a rag stuffed with fake tits

NEGATIVE CAPABILITY

We don't know everything, neither do we need to.

Absurdity and Existence

The comforts of absurdity, and my darling Dad

Why there are random shoes on the road

The Seven Ages of Man, Mahler and why it takes me half an hour to chop an onion.

Running Away from Feelings is Like Taking Morphine for a Broken Nail

Context: How did I end up a person who was so avoidant of feelings? Applying disproportionately gigantic plasters over every little shit paper cut of a day or tweak of discomfort?

HURRAH FOR BIG PHARMA. GFY HOMEOPATHY.

Were I to encounter a treat it with keto diet/herbs/coffee enema/Nigel Farage/racism/fasting person right now I might become physically violent. Go away people who put their faith in irrational things

No sex please, we haven't got a nice enough dressing gown - yet

The dim corner of my brain concerned with finding a dressing gown that looks nice has sometimes been the only thing keeping alive an idea of me as a woman let alone a sexual one