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There was nothing “wasted” about my youth spent clubbing on ecstasy (2021)

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How to survive a car crash

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Transcending My Father's Abuse

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End-of-Life Dreams

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‘Preparing to die has a lot to do with having had a good life’

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Dissolution Foretold: A neurosurgeon on the reality of his diagnosis

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A cab ride I'll never forget (1999)

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My mom left behind some number code

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The Legasov Tapes (2019)

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The Roof Always Caves In: Why there is nothing wrong with being doomed

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If you unscrew your belly button, your bottom will fall off

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‘Some things never leave you’: Poverty’s indelible marks

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Werner Herzog’s Wondrous Novel of Nothingness in the Jungle

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Starfish and Coffee

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What happened when my wife died

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Psychiatry Wars: a lawsuit that put psychoanalysis on trial

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I was at Woodstock ’99 and it destroyed my innocence

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Joni Mitchell learned to play guitar again after a 2015 brain aneurysm

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What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?

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The Creepiest Cycling Condition: Shermer’s Neck

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On Aging Alone (2021)

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I couldn’t get over my brother’s death

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Real Me and Fake Me

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When my wife developed Alzheimer’s, the story of our marriage kept us connected

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It's Not All In Your Head

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Daddy isn’t coming back

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I quit – Peak indifference, big tobacco

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A stranger secretly lived in my home

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Why do they burn a man at Burning Man?

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Forgetting My First Language

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My dead dad’s journal

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The Duke Mansion Mystery

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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning (2013)

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I Am Parting with My Crypto Library

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I was sick, tired and had lost myself until I began lifting weights at 71

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I know the secret to the quiet mind but wish I’d never learned it

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The Hair Dryer Incident (2014)

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I was an astrologer – here's how it really works (2019)

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The Last Men’s Hotel in Chicago

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Lost in Thought: Psychological Risks of Meditation

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Love and Death: “Quality of life” calculations leave out much that matters

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Stanisław Lem's Reflections on the Objects of His Childhood Home

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'I am mine': Alzheimer's at 41 (2018)

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We Are Built to Forget

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How to Live with Dying

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Falling five storeys from a New York rooftop changed my life

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My wife recently passed away. I used my time off to build her a giant bookshelf

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Reddit.com on July 25th, 2005 – 1 month after launch

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Trapped in his body for 12 years, a man breaks free (2015)

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Anger Management

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My life with Oliver Sacks: ‘The most unusual person I had ever known’ (2017)

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I stopped time by sitting in a forest for 24 hours

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It's too late to collect sand

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The Art of Dying

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Aldous Huxley Foresaw America’s Pill-Popping Addiction

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I was an astrologer

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I Survived the “Destroying Angel” (2006)

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A Son’s Race to Give His Dying Father Artificial Immortality (2017)

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I Made a Deal in a Bike Race

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I Can’t Answer Standardized Test Questions About My Own Poems (2017)

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'PJ paralysis': Why advocates are pushing to get patients out of pyjamas

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The Dreams of a Man Asleep for Three Weeks

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The Challenge of Going Off Psychiatric Drugs

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I’d rather be dead than linger on in an old folks’ home

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The Weight I Carry

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Poker player bets $100k he can last 30 days in pitch black solitary confinement

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How Our Relationship Survived When My Partner Got Sick

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What the hell happened to Darius Miles?

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A Sudden Illness (2003)

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I woke up unable to speak English

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The Ambien Diaries

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The Sound of Madness

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Walking While Black

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A game of tag that’s been going for 20+ years

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When That Guy Died on My Show (2007)

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The Horse Helped Shape Our World at Great Expense to Itself

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“You're on the verge of losing everything but you don’t understand why”

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Artist Nan Goldin takes on the billionaire family behind OxyContin

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Motel Living and Slowly Dying

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Who’s Sitting Next to You on the Subway? An R Train in September

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Reducing isolation at work is good for business

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My Father the Werewolf

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An attack of carnivorous Sea Fleas at a Melbourne beach

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Death of a Pig (1948)

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My Father’s Weakness for Beer Never Lessened His Strengths

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A Jordan Bookseller’s 24-Hour ‘Emergency Room for the Mind’

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My Father, in Four Visits Over Thirty Years

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A New Form of Social Withdrawal in Japan: A Review of ‘Hikikomori’ (2009)

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What a stranger taught me about Japan

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What It’s Like to Lose Your Short-Term Memory

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What My Stroke Taught Me

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After a Stroke at 33 a Writer Relies on Journals to Piece Together Her Own Story

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Double Solitude

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“The Depressed Person” by David Foster Wallace (1998) [pdf]

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Leonard Cohen Makes It Darker

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Fentanyl, a stealth killer

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For some, meditation has become more curse than cure

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My dad hid his depression. I won’t hide mine

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What It Feels Like to Freeze on National Television

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The Insults of Age

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I found my father living on the street

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Feynman's Letter to His Wife

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The Disturbing Consequences of Seeing Your Doppelgänger

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How my father gave me a terrifying lesson at 10

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Surviving an Alcoholic

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In 1962, a college student answers an ad: “Mortuary Assistant required”

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My Girlfriend Dissociated and Forgot Who I Was

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Trapped in His Body for 12 Years, a Man Breaks Free

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The Itch Nobody Can Scratch

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That’s me in the picture: Kevin Berthia on the Golden Gate bridge

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Twitter Bot Finds Anagrams of Twitter Statuses

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Living the Fitbit life

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Life After Losing an Arm

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The day I left my son in the car

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The Day I Started Lying to Ruth

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Life as a Nonviolent Psychopath

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From near-death to Silicon Valley CEO

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Show HN: WordsForThat.com - A new site that's like a reverse urban dictionary

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A Prion Love Story

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American Summer: Before Air-Conditioning (1998)

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Hikikomori: Why are so many Japanese men refusing to leave their rooms?

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How to know when someone is in trouble in the water

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Stephen Fry reveals he attempted suicide in 2012

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“Printcrime” by Cory Doctorow

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I was struck by lightning yesterday—and boy am I sore

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The bomb that changed my life (2011)

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You Are Going to Die

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A Moment Before Dying

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Thinking the unthinkable

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When You're Visited By A Copy Of Yourself, Stay Calm

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Dumb Like Me: A Year Low On Oxygen

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The Cab Ride I'll Never Forget

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How I survived a plane crash

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The Bomb That Changed My Life

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Remembering a relationship, one chat at a time

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Woman earns college degree two decades after complete memory loss

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At St. Paul 'wet house,' liquor can be their life - and death

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Today you, tomorrow me [from 1982]

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Requiem For A Roommate

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The Gentle Art of Poverty

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How twitter helped a technology consultant escape from an evil hospital

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Renowned reverse engineer Fravia says goodbye

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Reminiscences from the end of the horse era in New York City (1952)

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"The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" – Irwin Shaw (1939)

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My Visit to Deep Springs College (2009)

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The lumbar puncture that changed my life

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I Know the secret to the quiet mind. I wish I'd never learned it (2021)

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Show HN: I'm 17 and wrote a guide on how to build your own programming language

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I organized a 20-acre game of Capture the Flag

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The Strangeness of Grief (2019)

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I was at Woodstock '99 and it destroyed my innocence (2022)

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The hikikomori in Asia: A life within four walls

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How I got my laser eye injury

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Things my girlfriend and I have argued about

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Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer's suicide

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