S. Bolton – Medium

S. Bolton

S. Bolton

What I Learned From My First Yom Kippur

I’m writing this three hours after finishing my final Zoom service for the day, and having broken my 25 hour fast. I’m a Jewish convert…

Sep 29, 2020

What I Learned From My First Yom Kippur

Sep 29, 2020

S. Bolton

I Woke Up Dead: My Experience With Cotard’s Syndrome

Trigger warning: psychosis, schizoaffective/bipolar disorder, psychiatric medication, s*icide, poison, the supernatural.

Aug 2, 2020

I Woke Up Dead: My Experience With Cotard’s Syndrome

Aug 2, 2020

S. Bolton

Female Hysteria and Male Tragedy

In 2015, 75% of completed suicides in the UK were male, and it has long been known that sadly, suicide is the biggest killer of men aged…

Jul 25, 2019

Jul 25, 2019

S. Bolton

Gorgeous, Like A Thunderstorm

I have two large and opposing mental illnesses in my life, that have been with me for all of my adulthood. One of them, the one I’ll be…

Oct 30, 2018

Gorgeous, Like A Thunderstorm

Oct 30, 2018

S. Bolton

The Empathy Horseshoe

Being that I am a writer who often goes into the intricacies of Antisocial Personality Disorder, it’s only natural that I would talk a lot…

Jun 23, 2018

The Empathy Horseshoe

Jun 23, 2018

S. Bolton

Sociopathy as Wish-Fulfilment

When you hear the word “antisocial”, your image is that of an unspeaking loner, timid and withdrawn from the outside world, one who has…

Feb 27, 2018

Feb 27, 2018

S. Bolton

Top Ten Ranked Most Upsetting Elliott Smith Songs and Why

For a mentally precarious, alcohol-addicted and pseudo-Nihilistic waster like me, Elliott Smith belongs in my orbit — or I belong in his —…

May 22, 2017

Top Ten Ranked Most Upsetting Elliott Smith Songs and Why

May 22, 2017

S. Bolton

Reasons We Hate It When You Tell Us We’re Strong

This is going to be a contentious post, I know, but I feel it needs to be written. Before I begin I can tell you now that the words some…

Jan 10, 2017

Reasons We Hate It When You Tell Us We’re Strong

Jan 10, 2017

S. Bolton

I’m Scout, And I’m An Alcoholic: Reasons Why I Didn’t Get Help For My Alcoholism

Long-read.

Sep 20, 2016

I’m Scout, And I’m An Alcoholic: Reasons Why I Didn’t Get Help For My Alcoholism

Sep 20, 2016

S. Bolton

the problem with alcohol

I can pinpoint exactly when my alcohol addiction started. I was 18, trapped in an abusive relationship and going through what I now know to…

Feb 14, 2016

Feb 14, 2016

S. Bolton

S. Bolton

Journalist and broadcaster, loudly talking about personality disorders to anyone who will listen and everyone who won’t. http://inanawesomewave.tumblr.com

Following

Help
Status
About
Careers
Press
Blog
Privacy
Terms
Text to speech
Teams