Posts tagged mental health
Rock and a Hard Place: the Mental Illness/Paranormal Disturbance Parallel in The Haunting of Hill House
Rock and a Hard Place: the Mental Illness/Paranormal Disturbance Parallel in The Haunting of Hill House

Is this one long metaphor for madness, or is The Haunting of Hill House just a very nuanced ghost story?

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Nonchalant and All-Consuming: Revisiting Skins, Over a Decade Later
Nonchalant and All-Consuming: Revisiting Skins, Over a Decade Later

In many ways, Skins was the teenager it was trying to portray: arrogant, defiant, so hell-bent on the shock factor that we were often left with a show where wild things happened, impressing no one. 

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