The year after I graduated from university – from a degree that I struggled through dutifully and mostly dispassionately – I began to feel that I had missed out on an actual education. Like many other ...

‘You’re not always like this now,’ I said. I’d seen sober Charlene leave the ER in full high spirits, giggling and flirting ...

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I’m standing in the pouring rain trying to retrieve a parcel from a locker wall that just won’t open. I call the help desk and am greeted by Matt, a customer service chatbot. To get my parcel, I must ...

An 81-year-old woman with advanced Alzheimer’s is living in a retirement home in Iceland. She hasn’t recognised her family or spoken a word to them in a year. One day, while her son Lydur is sitting ...

We tend to talk about our relationships as either satisfying or unsatisfying, healthy or toxic. This either/or perspective shapes a lot of relationship advice, and filters through to the ways many of ...

‘It’s such a relief to finally be in a room with people who just get it.’ I heard this message a lot when I was providing group therapy sessions for LGBTQ+ clients. The group members on any given day ...