The Loan Wolf – How social anxiety behaves like double What seems like a lifetime, I have struggled with anxiety. It’s a thing I hide well. On the face of things, I am an assertive man who gets what they want. I have learnt from a young age to use my...
Princess Caraboo As a writer, your travels through the reams of literature takes you on a fantastic journey. Some stories stick in your mind while we consign others to the cerebral waste bin. I recently stumbled across a story so unbelievably fantastic, I had...
Patrick I came across a patient the other day. He was dying. An old man who was grateful for the life he had. Standing in the darkness’s abyss which was calling him, he reminisced fondly about the life he had behind him. I am often struck by the...
by Jon Biddle If you haven’t been watching the news recently, Russia has invaded Ukrainian, which has been on the cards for around six years. The hors d’oeures for this was the occupation of Crimea in 2014. Let’s not split hairs here, let’s just call that an...
by Jon Biddle I recently watched the Louis Theroux BBC program on Forbidden America while reading a book about the Sackler family and the OxyContin prescription disaster called Empire of Pain written by Patrick Radden Keefe. Spawning an addiction epidemic...
by Jon Biddle They safe moving house is one of the most stressful things you can do as an adult. In my younger years with my wife and children, we moved often, not really finding our groove. Until the house we have been living in for nearly twenty years. Some...