Patrick Marlborough
Hur det känns att leva med borderline
"Jag brukar gå förbi min grannes pool på vintern, bara en tom skål med dammigt kakel. Föreställ dig att du står där i mitten och så börjar plötsligt poolen fyllas med vatten. Innan du vet ordet av drunknar du."
RIP Raoul Coutard: The Man Who Made Cinematography Invisible
Whether it's in a drone tracking shot or the referential pastiche of Tarantino and Wes Anderson, Coutard's vision of hyper-staged naturalism is everywhere.
What It's Like to Have Borderline Personality Disorder
"I keep seeing my neighbor's pool in winter, just an empty bowl of dusty blue tiles. Imagine standing in the middle of that, when suddenly, the pool fills up. In an instant, you're drowning."
All the Times My Mental Illness Got Me Fired
Bipolar, depression, anxiety—these don't seem to be conducive to employability. Looking back on my best firings, a clear pattern emerges.
How Stand-Up Comedy Puts My Bipolar Brain at Ease
Stand-up is basically an acceptable form of public self-harm. As someone who thinks a lot about self harm, it's one place I feel accepted.
How it Feels to Ditch Bipolar Meds and Ride a Mean, Glorious Upswing
A manic episode is like a frenzied bukaki party in my head, and I'm all the participants at once.
My Life as a Kleptomaniac
It still shocks me when people react negatively to my stealing. I guess part of the horror/beauty of mental illness is the totally blinkered relationship you develop with risk. Getting busted doesn't even occur to me.
Burmese Men Are Pumping Their Dicks Full of Coconut Oil and Regretting it Forever
Koko is a medical student who was volunteering at a refugee camp on the Thai/Myanmar border. Sometimes she had to operate on guys who had tried gaining an inch with a tub of oil and a syringe.