Instead of helping me, many doctors minimized and misinterpreted my debilitating and constant vertigo. — Do you know what your worst fear is? Take a moment and think about it. Okay, time’s up. What was it? The loss of a loved one? Being made homeless? Perhaps losing a limb, or being surprised by a shark in the sea? It doesn’t really matter, of course. Not…

Ok, so when I write book reviews I usually write them quite conventionally: here’s what the book’s about, this is what I did/didn’t like, this is why it is/isn’t clever, if you like x, y, and z you will/won’t love it, and so on. …

A lot of things have been written recently about patients living with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.), often erroneously known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Last week, Reuters published a long-form piece focused on psychiatrists working in the field, who claimed online activists were silencing their work. Reuters quotes Professor Michael Sharpe, one…

The nights are drawing in, Netflix is featuring its creepiest shows, and Halloween in all of its gothic glory is very nearly upon us. While the gothic tradition has more than its fair share of virginal, swooning women designed to be rescued by men, that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty…

The UK government has formally announced its plan to ban the distribution of plastic straws, drinks stirrers, and cotton buds, despite vocal objections from disability rights campaigners around the world. …

“And there was no safe place, the baying of the outside world had collapsed the walls between public and private. Everything living outside, lived within.” Sometimes a book comes along that’s so vivid in its portrayal of the world, that it both opens your eyes, and draws your attention uncomfortably…

“Both Brett and Mark were drunkenly laughing during the attack. They seemed to be having a very good time.” This is one of the most striking moments from Dr Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who she says sexually assaulted her when she was only fifteen…

“No one sees me. I am a ghost. I am invisible.” When Kasia, a teenage girl housebound with ME witnesses what appears to be an abduction from her bedroom window, she immediately calls the police. …