Headstrong | Mark Rice-Oxley
Mark Rice-OxleyI write about mental health, with a particular focus on hope, optimism and what works.
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I’d rather have cancer than bipolar disorder
I was talking with a friend a few weeks back about cancer and mental illness. Cheery stuff. Don’t ever get cornered by me at a cocktail party.
Anyway, he had been through a rotten 15 months with bowel cancer. And I’d done the same amount...
Stop comparing yourself to others
I’m just back from a jazz summer camp in Sussex. If that sounds like hell on earth to you, read on because this piece isn’t about the blues, it’s about the blues.
There were half a dozen superb tutors - professional musicians, effortlessly...
🧠 Braindrops: the full set of puzzles
Over many weeks, I have included a small puzzle called ‘Braindrops’ in my mental health newsletter Headstrong, designed to amuse, tax and provoke, as well as to prove beyond all doubt that I am, deep down, an utter nerd.
I reckon it’s all...
Dismay and depression in the Dark Ages
We talk about mental illness as if it’s something quite new: a 21st century scourge, brought about by capitalism and atomisation and inequality and social media and bad food made from the eyelids of newborn foals.
The suggestion here is th...
WC2026: Why losing is a bigger deal than winning
Last week, I wrote about failure. So this week, with the men’s football World Cup final in the offing, I thought I’d consider the other side: success.
We are told to treat these two impostors - triumph and disaster - just the same1. Yet ho...
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