Fluoxetine not working: how long to wait and why
Fluoxetine asks for more patience than most antidepressants, but not every delay is a matter of time. What to expect in the first weeks, and what only a reassessment can answer.
Politics as a pretext: new clothes for an old fight
The election is over and the fight goes on. On relationships that were already wounded and found in politics a respectable reason to fight.
Guilt after the fight: what was said in the heat of the campaign
Once the runoff is over, what's left is what was said in the heat of the campaign. On the guilt that brings people closer, the kind that only punishes, and why repair doesn't require changing your mind.
Talking again: reconnecting with someone who voted differently
The first phone call, the first lunch with someone who voted differently. On what the election broke, what is still standing, and why reconnecting does not require reopening the debate.
The defeat that feels personal: grief, anger and triumph after the election
On the day after the runoff: the grief of those who lost, the triumph that also unsettles those who won, and what Freud, in Mourning and Melancholia, helps us understand about both.
Election exhaustion: when the tiredness isn’t just about the election
Irritation at anything and everything, the urge to disappear from the subject, a tiredness that doesn't come from any effort. On the strain of the final stretch, and how to tell the tiredness of the moment from a condition that was already there.
Election, sleep, and mood: when short nights call for attention
Late-night debates, group chats pinging in the small hours, arguments that keep you up at night. For people with bipolar disorder or in treatment for depression, sleep during these weeks says a lot.
The family group chat on WhatsApp: leave, mute, or stay
The phone buzzes in the middle of the afternoon, and it's the family group chat again. On the cost of fighting, the cost of silence, and what is lost when being there turns into a contest.
Is my candidate a psychopath?
The most widely handed-out diagnosis of election season, almost always for the other side's candidate. What psychopathy really is, and why no serious psychiatrist answers the title.
When the other turns enemy: what psychoanalysis sees in political hatred
On the moment when someone close to you starts to seem like a threat, and what Melanie Klein and Wilfred Bion help us understand about this movement, which cuts across every side.
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