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Covering mental health for the New York Times, former Boston, Delhi, Moscow bureau chief. At home in New England. Retweet ≠ endorsement. [email protected].

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Nasty women! Join me and Kate at Brookline Booksmith on Wednesday, to talk about the infuriating, inspiring story of The Exceptions.

Nasty women! Join me and Kate at Brookline Booksmith on Wednesday, to talk about the infuriating, inspiring story of The Exceptions.
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Anastasia, 19, had flown in from Novosibirsk, 1,800 miles from Moscow, to be present.

“I think that he is a freer man than all of us,” she said of Mr. Navalny. “He lived as a free man and died as a free man.” nytimes.com/2024/03/01/wor…

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'Please... take me to an emergency room if involuntary treatment is necessary to treat my schizophrenia.'

@Hannahfurfaro on psychiatric advance directives, wh can help people with severe mental illness avoid traumatic cycle of homelessness and jail.
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Data tells us something fundamental about suicide: It is most often an impulsive act, with a period of acute risk that passes in hours, or even minutes. If lethal means are difficult to access, that impulse can pass.

Policymakers are beginning to pay attention.…

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For generations, psychiatrists believed that “anyone bent on self-destruction must eventually succeed.”

Then something strange and wonderful happened: Midway through the 1960s, suicides in Britain began dropping, steeply and steadily.

No one could say why.…

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On the plane back to Russia, Mr. Navalny watched “Rick and Morty,” a show about a mad scientist. He quoted it in court: “To live is to risk it all. Otherwise you are just an inert chunk of randomly assembled molecules drifting where the universe blows you. nytimes.com/2024/02/17/wor…

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Главный его подвиг был, конечно, в том, что он продал всем — нам, им, вообще всем — эту идею, что он Супермен и его тупо нельзя убить. На этом абсолютно детском обмане, как всегда бывает, надежда последняя и держалась

Главный его подвиг был, конечно, в том, что он продал всем — нам, им, вообще всем — эту идею, что он Супермен и его тупо нельзя убить. На этом абсолютно детском обмане, как всегда бывает, надежда последняя и держалась
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Mr. Borisovich recalled a conversation he had last summer with Mr. Navalny’s wife, Yulia, as they celebrated her husband’s release from a 15-day administrative sentence.

“I asked her how committed she was to the whole thing: ‘Listen, what needs to happen — when are you going to…

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