Welcome to Dictionary of Despair - the Vocabulary of Weltschmerz. A self-help guide for the time poor and contentment challenged. Struggling to…

November 2020

When fear is your constant companion...

October 2020

A modern phenomenon, born of extended homeworking due to coronavirus. It's that dead-to-the-world, thousand-yard stare of the veteran of 9 solid hours…
A relatively new phenomenon – shelf aggrandizement is the act of positioning oneself in front of the most impressive selection of erudite literature as…

April 2020

A particularly weak or low-quality instance of a portmanteau, e.g. sticknorance, grammerage or manguage.

January 2020

Happy New Year! It's that time again - resolution time. Or more like, resolution recycling. "What is this?", I hear you ask. Resolution recycling is the…

December 2019

Self-awareness is what separates us from the beasts. Is it possible that some people have so much self awareness that they have no awareness left for…
The absolute conviction of some individuals who feel that they have been dealt a poor hand by the universe, or often an emergent phenomenon of the…
Relaxation Anxiety is a subtle and cunning subversion of sensible behavior. The inability to relax, combined with the lack of desire to undertake any…

August 2019

See Battery Anxiety
You do your best to raise them and then send them out into the world, knowing that you have done all that you possibly can to prepare them. Right…
We all generally feel that we are locked at some notional age, perhaps in our early twenties, but how does one establish when youth has decided to sneak…