I’m sure this has been pointed out, but ‘congrats’ not ‘congress’?

Controversial take on borders.

This isn’t really an accurate characterisation of the attitude towards religion in NI. ‘Authors of their pain’ made me laugh though.

This is super cute.

Like Natalies Imbruglia before me, I’m torn.

Dis is a LJ entry yes?

You might reveal yourself with the statement that you live somewhere 5k constitutes a deposit!

Skins was total hyperbole, but it did in fact feature both alcohol poisoning and overdose. As did so many of our teenage years, I’d imagine.

She and Mumford grew up in the same tight-knit hardcore religious circle. She’s maybe not quite as rad as you hope.

This reads like a half-baked undergrad essay, minus the critical framework. The generalizations, conclusions drawn from minimal evidence, and complete failure to situate anything in its proper context suggest that this could have used another draft or two. No idea what the editorial situation is like on this site now, …

“This was the first article I’ve ever written for a print publication. I didn’t know the proper protocol for citation in this type of writing, and as a result, I failed to credit Tasbeeh properly, which I now regret terribly and am trying to fix.”

I’m not overly worried about the social media habits of others, but sharing pics of kids is probably the one bit of it I see as really odd. It is, perhaps, a useless view, given that surveillance is omnipresent, but I still think each of us should have an innate right to privacy. Putting pictures of children online sit…

Fully gas x

This is a daft comment, but the punctuation in your reply is shocking. Let’s hope the ‘restructuring’ here doesn’t hit the editorial team!

Which one?!

A very considered response on a celebrity gossip website. Though the diversity of experience shared here might also lead us to ask useful questions about the forms of diagnosis and categorisation we use, maybe? Generally, though, I guess anonymous comment sections are the very space people use to project - and maybe…

Everyone who went before. It’s just that the appeal to ego is so strong when a person is 22 or whatever - they really believe they are uniquely special and smart, and that they’ll defy the odds, despite what anyone who’s gone through it before tells them. And permanent staff are happy to feed that feeling, because PhD…

I would maintain a careful watch on the one doing a PhD. The road to a professorship is very long, and the sector relies on external validation and constant critique. It’s a dangerous world for anyone, not least those with existing MH issues x

Sure is. I last saw it in the Nirvana exhibition at the EMP in Seattle a couple of years ago.

This not intended as a provocation, but where did you grow up? Trying to think of countries where you’d hear “methinks” fairly regularly and am curious!