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OCD — and How to Overcome It
One of the most painful patterns of mental life goes by the term OCD: obsessive compulsive disorder. To the sufferer…
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How to Figure Out What You Really, Really Think
It’s one of the great paradoxes of mental life that we’re often unable to access our true feelings about important…
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Why We Are All Addicts
When we think of an ‘addict’, certain stock images come to mind: a homeless person in the park sniffing glue,…
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Why You Should Keep a Journal
What should in an ideal world define someone as a writer isn’t that they publish books, or give talks at…
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What Regret Can Teach Us
Part of the pain of growing older is that we can start to see how much, at certain points, we…
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In Praise of Introspection
However healthy it often is to try to fit in and assume we must just be like everyone else, there…
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Do We Need to Read the News?
We are used to thinking of what we call the news as a tool that can help us to vanquish…
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Trauma and Forgetting
The word ‘trauma’ — meaning a terrible event we live through that cannot be remembered but which generates painful related…
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The Roots of Paranoia
One of the most useful realisations we might come to about ourselves is that we are ‘paranoid.’ The word is…
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Self-Knowledge
How to Figure Out What You Really, Really Think
It’s one of the great paradoxes of mental life that we’re often unable to access our true feelings about important…
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Self-Knowledge
Why We Are All Addicts
When we think of an ‘addict’, certain stock images come to mind: a homeless person in the park sniffing glue,…
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Self-Knowledge
Why You Should Keep a Journal
What should in an ideal world define someone as a writer isn’t that they publish books, or give talks at…
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Self-Knowledge
What Regret Can Teach Us
Part of the pain of growing older is that we can start to see how much, at certain points, we…
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Self-Knowledge
In Praise of Introspection
However healthy it often is to try to fit in and assume we must just be like everyone else, there…
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Work
Do We Need to Read the News?
We are used to thinking of what we call the news as a tool that can help us to vanquish…
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Relationships|Self-Knowledge
Trauma and Forgetting
The word ‘trauma’ — meaning a terrible event we live through that cannot be remembered but which generates painful related…
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Self-Knowledge
The Roots of Paranoia
One of the most useful realisations we might come to about ourselves is that we are ‘paranoid.’ The word is…
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