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This is a photo of me as a kid. I am a survivor of childhood sexual-abuse by the British Crown. The recent Epstein fiasco has deeply upset me. I have spoken out here on Steemit many times in the past but

In the psychoanalysis of Brexit, we confront a suicidal patient. The question must then be asked: What is the rationale behind this compulsion to self- harm? Just as a body is comprised of multiple cells

Last night I dreamt that singer-songwriter Ryan Adams blew himself up. I met Adams at a press conference in the dream and he seemed quite likeable from a distance although I was aware I didn’t want him

What is it about pornography? It draws so many of us to crouch, haggard, in darkened rooms, massaging our genitalia to lonely climax in in the cold glow of LCD. Then, in the horrid aftermath, with towel

Is your subconscious mind communicating with you through your dreams? Yesterday, I sat down at the piano and improvised a piece. Then I listened to Jung talking about dream analysis. Then I took a sample

Given our current sociopolitical situation, the question on most people's lips is, "How can I make a hollow, wooden tetrahedron?" This post aims to address this question. What is a tetrahedron?

Men are not the enemy. In fact, sexual violence is perpetrated across genders. Although the methods of abuse often differ: Men are more likely to actively perpetrate, where women tend to enable abuse or

I've returned to Steemit with a new project. I took a five month break to heal more from abuse and I've now started a podcast I'd like to share with you all. The project is called Karma Police and it focuses

Before I leave you all. I wanted to revisit the reason I first signed up here. To speak out about the abuse of children. Some of you might remember that I exposed the institutional abuse at King's House

My plane landed in a new world. Then, I found this poem in a book that I picked up by random chance in the first bookshop I walked into: Goodbye.

As a child I was abused by both of my parents. And as an adult I have sometimes unconsciously repeated those relationship patterns by befriending some people who didn't care about me; but only cared about

This is an extract taken from a history book written 40 years in the future from now: The age of Parent and Child In the hundreds of years leading up to the signing of the Declaration of the Child's Right

How did the world's most visionary entrepreneur become an arms dealer? Marshall McLuhan famously said, "the medium is the message". So, then, what is the message of a long flame bellowing out

Today, Gandhi would be hatching dank memes behind a VPN. He would know that preaching on the street would see him kettled by riot police. Today, Jesus wouldn't overturn the tables of the money-lenders

In his book 'The Architecture of Happiness' philosopher Alain De Botton explores the psychological ways in which the spaces that surround us elicit different feelings and support certain behaviour patterns.

Once upon a time, there lived a boy called Jack. Jack watched the evening news and it told him that planet Earth was dying. Jack realized there was nothing he could personally do to stop the environmental

The HBO series Westworld is a complex allegory of the world we live in: A world where amnesiac trauma-victims wander unconsciously through a land owned and controlled by an elite class who exploit them

Although the #Metoo movement seeks to expose the actions of abusive men like Bill Cosby, it often overlooks the complicity of women in our world of sexual violence. it feels like the simple solution to

Just when you thought that Germany might never burn a book again, they go and surprise you: A payment-system company is now attacking my friends at the independent @kaliberlin psychedelic bookshop in Berlin.

The school that sexually abused me has locked its Wikipedia page so that no more survivors of abuse can edit the King's House School page. They claim this is because of "disruptive editing".