20th December 2022 - The Glasgow Guardian



My flatmates used weaponised incompetence against me

20th December 2022

Can weaponised incompetence apply to flatmates too? Do your flatmates like to play Jenga with the recycling? Perhaps they pretend to ignore that the tinned tomatoes they failed to rinse out properly are sprouting a lovely garden of mould in the kitchen. Or maybe they just didn’t clean up after a house party.  It’s not ...


Antidepressants and me

20th December 2022

Becca Luke shares her experiences with antidepressants, and discusses the stigma that still surrounds them. Antidepressants saved my life. Whilst I find myself joking about my “dependency” on a box of happy little pills and I acknowledge that by no means were they a miracle, overnight, magic pill, Mirtazapine gave me my life back. When ...


Starting the conversation: food guilt

20th December 2022

Views editor Alisha Vaswani discusses her experience with food guilt. Content Warning: Mention of disordered eating September 25 2022 (according to my UberEats order history), I spent most of the night intermittently working through a strange type of shame. It’s one I’ve experienced so often that it’s come to feel commonplace – but I always ...