The inadvertent killer in all of us — DISCLAIMER: readers may find some accounts of suffering distressing. My brother died three Christmases ago, at a train station in Birmingham, UK. We only learned 5 days later. CCTV showed him standing in the middle of the tracks, waiting for the train to come. They had held on to him…

Psychologists Explain “The Latest” Online-Dating Misdemeanor — You are single and feeling lonely. You are attracted by the shiny Colgate smiles of a loved-up couple, claiming “We did it — so can you”, on a Bumble or Tinder advert. You pluck up courage — you sign up. …

While Others Are “Gushing”, I Am Grieving — I am 20. A random Orthodox Christian Mother’s Day leaflet picked on a tram outlines the virtues of the Virgin Mary, the “ideal mother”. …

Know Your Own Body — I am one for anti-depressants. Persistent abuse sent me into a depression in my childhood and teenage years, but this was never diagnosed. I just muddled through life sustained by sheer obstinacy. Severe panic attacks in my 20s (more abuse) brought the first course of a long dependency. Amitriptyline, Clomipramine…

Psychology and The Swedish Prison System Have Got It Right — The Ukraine war has encouraged booming research in Putinology and what has shaped his depraved brain. He has been called “an evil genius”, a Hitler, a kleptocrat — Navalny exposed his “theft of Russian money” — and a dictator. Putin meticulously prepared every stage of the Ukraine war by spreading…

And Why She Is The Stronger Sociopath — My son is not the only child with divorced parents, though not many kids live half of their time with mum and a half — with dad — like he does. He does not mind — he tolerates our weird arrangements. His Dad is with “the love of his life”…

Bulgaria’s Shame Goes Way Back In Time — In case you have not heard of it, this tiny country, on the opposite side of the Black Sea to Ukraine, has 30% of its population worshipping Putin and his war and swearing death to NATO and the European Union, to which they have belonged since 2007. Bulgarian social media…

And It Is Bad For My Health — When I was about to move to the UK from my Eastern European home 20 years ago, people tried to warn me. “Choose a better country”, they said, “The UK is backward. It can’t prepare you for a modern capitalist competition”. I didn’t listen, so I went on to experience…

He Was Reduced To Sneaking Away From His Own Child, Like The Sociopath He Is — My son is not the only child with divorced parents, though not many kids live half of their time with mum and half — with dad — like he does. He does not mind — he tolerates our weird arrangements. His Dad is with “the love of his life” —…