Even sleep offered no respite from my mental disorders. There was Nightmare Disorder, which is diagnosed when the sufferer dreams of being pursued or declared a failure. All my nightmares involve some...
I wondered what sort of woman loved a man like that.
The word forever had been coming up a lot during my two years among the publicly shamed. Jonah and Justine and people like them were being told, 'No. There is no door. There is no way back in. We don'...
These depictions of a broken America were also highly selective. When Ted Cruz listed the various ways Americans have had their lives destroyed — by terrorists, or police officers cut down in the line...
TV is just troubled people being booed these days.
Please ejaculate, I silently urged the man, so I can go to sleep. (In this way I imagine I was like millions of women before me
Our imagination is so limited, our arsenal of potential responses so narrow, that the only thing anyone can think to do with an inappropriate shamer like Adria is to punish her with a shaming. All of...
Aplomb. I had managed to portray myself as a good Jew and,
When I was writing my biography of LeBon, Bob Nye told me, he seemed to me the biggest asshole in the whole of creation.
The DSM-IV-TR is a 943-page textbook published by the American Psychiatric Association that sells for $99...There are currently 374 mental disorders. I bought the book...and leafed through it...I clos...
It felt like a vast left-wing conspiracy to pretend to have found Eric André’s performance funny. This was everyday life on social media, each side lurching toward mockery and attack — fanning the fla...
I'd been beguiled by the new technology -- a toddler crawling toward a gun.
I consider it somewhat psychopathic to label someone from afar as a psychopath. We love nothing more than to declare other people insane, especially people we don’t like.
After his lawyer argued that given the passage of time, he wouldn’t have a fair hearing. He became a pariah in the offender-profiling world. Now,
Wow, I say, politely, but I don't feel it. I'm like a sociopath when it comes to expensive cars. I feel no emotion.
Shame internalized can lead to agony.
Manipulative? I said. I think you could describe that as leadership, he said. Inspire! I think it’s called leadership. Are
In fact, ever since I first learned about confirmation bias, I’ve been seeing it everywhere.
I didn't want to write a book that advocated for a less curious world. Prurient curiosity may not be great. But curiosity is. People's flaws need to be written about. The flaws of some people lead to...
Fiction seemed all about harnessing infinity. In fiction, when you walk into a restaurant and you sit down, there’s nobody there and the restaurant doesn’t exist. The restaurant is a horrific, never-e...