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A passage from this novel by Hanya Yanagihara:

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He took my arm and led me into the garden
Bridge of Allan gardens
first
achily
all that jingle-jangle of coins
I used to pretend this garden was ‘NEVERLAND’
New Editor-in-Chief of The British Journal of Psychiatry
Every garden is open to the world
An Essay in INTERPRETATION
“Travel is an essential part of official government business”
Scottish Brain Sciences
tale to tale
on my skin [in case you missed it]
BRISTO PORT
Charitas
The First Cremation in Scotland
scribbled marginalia
the BLACKOUT
On my way home
STATIC
Because I am Joe
The Royal Garden
all those things
diminishing diameter circles in spandrels
talk about the Art of transition
Protected: He’s no Wally
BECAUSE [there are more than ‘2 cultures’]
NEVER FAILS!
SPANDREL [the corner of all things]
‘Medicine remains a conflicted as ever’
Serotonin: What is its role in treating depression?
We must heed the lessons of experience
beautiful minds
ways of seeing
a composition
“wokey-cokey”
Culture of Secrecy
‘could go under’
particularly low
PROUD to be TONE DEAF
PROFIT [a healthy net surplus]
in concert
light
SCRATCHES
LOST
vivendo discimus
Wunderkammer
N o s t a l g i a
S P A N D R E L
PERENNIALS
Is there evidence to support this statement?
The Psychopharmacology Committee [2023]
‘Trusted Information Creator’
d a y d r e a m
The Library of Gateways
Iron Gates and Their Making
Pharma payments to the Royal College of Psychiatrists [2019]
That’s what he didn’t paint
Yesterday, I chatted with a dear friend
To advertise here
Antidepressant withdrawal with Tony Kendrick and Mark Horowitz
Fitted For Radio
AMPLIFIER NO. 7
The music of the Abbey
‘Leaving on a jet plane’
love STRONG
nowhere AGAIN
Withdrawing from antidepressants: advice for primary care
“How should psychiatry respond to its critics?”
outside the circle of listeners
snowdrops
A story (any story, every story)
This is NOW!
Have I told you?
on my skin
I could
equations of emotion
Who on Earth needs natural daylight!
Youngest sister of Rabbie Burns
Agapanthus
Beliefs
We have gone from . . .
the strongest bond of all
The other record shop
stories in pictures
He owned a harbour
“Programme will help identify potential suicide victims”
A tube or twa of impure NEON
What we had that day was our story
D’YE KEN
I wore my life on my skin
Mince and Bollocks
BEATON
Catterline
Mimrikin
Sleepy
Shieldhill: a forgotten Kincardine village
Sweet Home of Catterline
“The Defeat Depression Campaign is not a useful exercise”
“Glossy Campaign”
in harmony
a gentle gardener
Mossgrove Christmas
our UNSTOPPABLE progress
unspeakably gorgeous
‘To influence others by offering money’
starlings
“Promulgating therapeutic recommendations”
G O L D B E R G S
What Price Depression?
VERTIGO
old gets new life
The Godwits Fly
unanswered
FOR THE PEOPLE
ARTIFICIAL ILLUMINATION AT ITS BEST
“Attacks on antidepressants”
Kilbirnie Radio Cinema Bingo Hall
mausoleum
‘A generation in crisis’
mountain top
The amazing feet of Sandy Mackie
sandstone unicorn
Mass prescribing
Among big men, he was a giant
BENZEDRINE
because what mattered were the stars
outside
“Can no longer remain silent bystanders”
“Will open the gates of Hell”
Government School of Design
figurines
Fail-you-never
The summit of Ben Nevis
Checking their moral compass
Depression: pills and dependence [a timeline following a letter in the Times]
she was light itself
Uncle Feedle’s fourth kind of vision
death day
migration
space – body – other – time
The Buchanite Delusion
‘He pulled on the ropes with utmost gusto’
A humanising sense of creativity
Puts self-preservation before all else
Destroys it’s reputation for integrity within days
The ‘Chemical Imbalance’ Theory
They fell for us
Big Ted [his time is now]
Braes of Doune

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