Can I break down, please?
I saw a ‘specialist doctor’ today, the one I described here. Again, the appointment started with a chat about us, foreigners, in the UK (I was quite surprised he remembered our earlier encounter) and then smoothly proceeded to the results of my tests. All was great until I asked: “Is it a waiting room?”
Child of communism
4th of June marked the 28th anniversary of the end of communism in Poland. The end was announced by a Polish actress on the main Polish news programme (still run by the communist party) to the confusion of the presenters. ‘Nobody’ expected the end. Nobody! It was unbelievable. As we started living after communism, it turned out, at least for me, to be much more difficult than I had expected.
Insignificant pain
I’ve been in pain. It’s been almost year now. It’s not significant, it’s not crippling, it’s just there. Every day. Today I want to write about it. Continue reading “Insignificant pain”
Qualitative suicidology
Lancet Psychiatry has recently run an editorial on suicide prevention. In this blog I want to write a response.