I don't know what "like gangbusters" means, but as a drunk person I read it as "like gangbangers" at first and I was nodding vigorously.

No worries! DID is feeling you contain multiple personalities. Schizophrenia is experiencing paranoia and/or visual/auditory hallucinations. I'm not sure why there's this mix-up in popular culture. The "schizo" part of schizophrenia refers to the divorce of perception and reality, but perhaps people think it means…

I've been applying to a lot of jobs in the UK lately, and most of them involve an "equal opportunities" section which is separated from your application and is used for monitoring purposes. It asks for details on your ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religion and disability status. The options…

Congratulations on having the self-control to click away. In those situations I can't stop reading the comments, though I know it's the best thing for my mental health...it's car crash commenting.

and people called Chris, Alex, Sam...

My categories are:

Seems like you don't have to choose between them...

Oh, is THAT it? I was wondering why they were all the exact same colour from the neck down. Third dude from the left should seriously have swept some bronzer onto his face.

Ah, I see! Cú dubh is more black hound than black dog, so it's even more appropriate to your story :)

That's dissociative identity disorder, not schizophrenia.

Many of the "Native American" people in early Westerns were Irish, I have no idea why. I've seen movies where the "Native" people are saying the Hail Mary line by line in Irish, while they're meant to be acting out planning an attack on the cowboys or some shit.

This is really interesting - what was the significance of the phrase for you in that language? People associate different things with different languages, and I hadn't thought about it until I read your comment. When I think "madra dubh" I think of being five years old and writing stories at school like "I have a dog.…

Wait, except the rosebud thing. That traumatised me and I still haven't quite forgiven this man I never met.

Weird, I just looked up nonplussed to find out it means unperturbed in Opposite Land, AKA North America. You guys are weird.

Every new thing I read by Mark makes me love him a little bit more.

I dunno, I read an article at some point (I'm great with details) that described how Gaiman shows up in Amos' music and she shows up in his comics. I read and listen to both. I always feel Gaiman infantilises and fetishises her in his writing, and that article compounded the feeling for me.

"Ugh, ooookkaaay, women can't get abortions here...but they can totally go to Alabama or something if they want!!!!"

...until the life of the mother is at risk, in which case they might just choose to save the foetus instead. See Savita Halappanavar, Sheila Hodgers and Michelle Harte in Ireland. I'm sure there are some US examples too.

...and Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell.

Nope, not diseased! I'm exactly the same. I made a post later about visible veins on my entire body, and my chest looking like a blue subway map. I don't care about it much - I'd like to not have such dark circles under my eyes, but that's mostly it. I sometimes get a bit self conscious of my legs, as they have that…