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This is an article that might interest some ... Overcoming Grumpy Old Man Syndrome

I don’t even know what that means. I’m naturally curious, and although the interruptions in my schooling dogged my development, I went to evening classes and lapped up what I could learn. It was like the world opened up to me, and the more I understood, the more opportunities I had. It wasn’t so...

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Above all, he is saying that many doctors are themselves traumatised people, but have no way of addressing the influence this has on their lives. One of my friends is a retired GP who started out as a surgeon. He said that he went into general practice because he saw so many of his colleagues...

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I was across the pond in Germany and saw the pictures and thought, Oh no, this will be the Pearl Harbour of our day. Fortunately, it didn't quite have the repercussions I feared, but it was a tragic loss of life and led to more loss of life. It is also traumatic for the people of New York, who...

It was when I realised that the white head, the droopy eyes and the wrinkles were actually me, and getting out of bed took longer, and I needed to stretch myself before I could do anything else.

In his books The Sane Society (1955) and Escape from Freedom (1941), Erich Fromm argued that society itself can be 'sick', becoming destructive and alienating and estranging people from their true humanity. In such a case, a person who cannot adapt to the society and develops neuroses or...

Near-death experiences (NDEs) occur in patients who have been close to death, sometimes during periods of low oxygen. However, the preservation or restoration of brain activity is essential for generating and retaining NDE memories. While the occurrence of complex conscious experiences (such as...

What Writing Means to Me I started writing 'seriously' relatively late in life, but not for money. I publish on Substack. I now have time to do something I enjoyed as a child, even though it was ignored at the time. However, I was passionate about it despite my childish naivety. When I started...

A wonderful weekend in Giethoorn, the Netherlands ...

@all Thank you for the birthday greetings. I was so overwhelmed for a week by the number of guests, calls, and the day itself that I wasn't here to receive the greetings.

The fluffy coils of feathers twist— aerial dancers in sunlight's kiss— doing aerobatics through our garden air, throwing us into conundrum, for who among us could mimic such tricks, even in the mind’s vast theatre? If we are quiet— watchful, still— they flit about their business with wary...