Mark Rice-Oxley

2 weeks ago | markriceoxley.substack.com | Mark Rice-Oxley

Right, let’s try something different. I want you to cast your mind back, if you can, to your best year. Your heyday, the time of your life, when it was bliss to be alive. Remember how it felt, where you were, what made the year such a good one. Sit with that memory for a few moments. Nice. Now take a breath and recall the worst year you ever had. Remember how and why things were bad, how you felt, where you were, what it was that ruined the year. OK. So then, which evoked stronger emotion?

2 weeks ago | markriceoxley.substack.com | Mark Rice-Oxley

On a sleepy summer afternoon a few years ago, a young woman strolled into town and spent £27,000 she didn’t have. She’d been feeling peculiar for a few weeks - wired, frenetic, invincible, like she was saving the world in her high-powered Whitehall job. Sleeping little, drinking a bit too much, winging it in meetings with government ministers. “Everything was a bit surreal,” she recalls. She’d just had lunch with her sister at a riverside pub in Kingston-upon-Thames. Her partner was out for the day.

1 month ago | markriceoxley.substack.com | Mark Rice-Oxley

People are always asking me whether our collective mental health is getting worse. Actually that’s not strictly true. No one ever asks me this. Which is just as well as I don’t really have a firm answer. There’s a crisis in just about everything at the moment. Why should mental health be any different? Thanks for reading. Do subscribe for free to receive new posts. Certainly when it comes to the things we can measure, the numbers are not encouraging.

1 month ago | markriceoxley.substack.com | Mark Rice-Oxley

“You are what you think,” an Australian professor once told me. For most of us, most of the time, this is not a bad thing. We are homo sapiens, discerning people. We think therefore we are. We have thousands of thoughts every day. We solve problems. We make plans.

2 months ago | open.substack.com | Mark Rice-Oxley

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