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“This sounds dramatic, but not killing myself was very difficult; I apologise if that upsets people.”
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Writer Marian Keyes on pushing through depression’s ‘numb bubble’

One of Ireland’s most successful authors talks candidly about overcoming mental health challenges, giving writing “a go” – and her definition of success.

  • by Benjamin Law
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‘Disorders of consciousness’: The million-dollar question and the mysteries of coma

An “acute brain failure” jettisons a patient, their doctors and families into an anxious twilight zone. How aware is a person in a coma? And how are decisions made in the face of uncertainty?

  • by Jackson Graham
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