Dr. Sohom Das

I recently watched a film - a terrible film - which had an archaic, grotesque depiction of life in a psychiatric ward. I won't tell you what film, as I do not wish to promulgate my disdain for it. After I recovered from the boredom, I woke up, wiped dribble...

The other day, I was discussing the new TV advert by MIND / Rethink, called "It's time to talk. It's time to change", with my colleagues at the psychiatric inpatient unit where I work. You know the one - where Dave (from accounts) has come back to work...

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed." - Carl Jung

Know somebody that you just cannot get on with? Does their behaviour irritate and confuse you? Are they generally a massive pain in the distal digestive...

The mass hysteria... streets crowded with wailing women... explosions of emotions.

No, not the Boxing Day sales. I'm talking about the mass grieving of the people of North Korea, for their recently deceased, supposedly exalted leader, Kim Jong Il. I noted some performances that may contend for the 2012...

"What's the difference between Andres Breivik and the Yorkshire Ripper?"

I know this sounds like the setup of a scurrilous, distasteful joke from Sikipedia, but bear with me; there is a point to this.

I was very interested to hear about Breivik's diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia and the suggestion from...

I was really interested to read a Huffington Post story published a week ago, "Woman Spends £4000 on 100 Lip Injections to Look Like Jessica Rabbit". My first thought was "Sorry love, you don't look like Jessica Rabbit". Perhaps a healthier choice would be a role model that...

I recently went through what I presumed would be the pedestrian task of changing my internet provider to Sky. It involved much more frustrating, mundane drudgery than I expected. Forget 'Believe in better' - I was left not even believing in mediocre. The catalogue of errors included Love...

Have you ever thought about how unpopular traffic wardens are? Imagine how much grief they must have to put up with on a daily basis. Well, I think I can top that...

I worked in a prison earlier this year, as a detox doctor, prescribing methadone to heroin addicts, and...

I'd Like to Talk About Kevin

I've just seen that film, We Need to Talk About Kevin. Wow!

I really enjoyed it. The acting was outstanding and I was especially impressed with how effortlessly sinister and chillingly-vile the small child was. Even if I was the biggest bully at...

People are stupid. No offence.

I've lost count of the number of times that I've been met with the phrase "Can you read my mind?", when I've told people what I do for a living. Recently in a phone shop I replied, "Yes, I can. It seems to me...you're an...