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  • I am Josef Vissarionovich

    I am Josef Vissarionovich

    26th January 2012 | 2 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    Chapter One

    The patient was crouched on his bed, rickety knees to his hollow chest, black eyes staring towards the small barred window, out to the pale grey sky. It was snowing in relentless wet streaks, but the room where he huddled was blisteringly hot. Only a few feet wide and ten feet long, it was heated by a gurgling, institutional radiator, coated in the early 1950s in thick, cream-coloured gloss...

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  • My analyst kicked me out of bed

    My analyst kicked me out of bed

    6th October 2010 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this

    My analyst told me we should start seeing other people. It was a strange experience. I first clomped self-consciously up the stairs in his Victorian (could be Edwardian) house in a grim area of North London when I was 25.  I had realised very slowly that my state of constant terror, insomnia and blind panic was actually something I needed to address. I lived on my own and, as my...

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  • Eating disorders are all symptoms of a wider sickness- misogyny

    Eating disorders are all symptoms of a wider sickness- misogyny

    9th July 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

    Given that I am up this mountain with not a whole hell of a lot to do most of the time, I find myself glued to the tabloids online and I now know far more than any human being ought to know about Jordan and Peter, for example. I am trying very hard to be on her side (since, clearly, we are supposed to have a side) because she is...

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Anna Blundy

Anna Blundy

Anna Blundy is the author of the Faith Zanetti quintet a series of five books about a war correspondent with a passion for the truth, men and vodka. Anna is a journalist herself, former Moscow correspondent for The Times, and she lives between Italy and London. She has a black dog called Marmite

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