Glosswitch has always had a love for all things German, so she's happy to learn that everyone else agrees.

After my hospitalisation for eating disorders, my brother's schizophrenia diagnosis came as a relief, of sorts. Whether family history or chemical imbalance, we desperately seek a reason for the unreasonable.

We’re brilliant at defending the mentally ill in principle, but we can be terrible at hiding our revulsion at some of the sick people we’ve encountered in the flesh.

Tanya Gold writes that "motherhood and autonomy can never coexist" - but how does that affect the debate over abortion?