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Gabriel Nathan

Police Suicide: A Failure to Look for the Helpers

It’s interesting to me that law enforcement has been keeping, collecting, and analyzing data on police officers assaulted or killed in…

11 min readFeb 19, 2024

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Police Suicide: A Failure to Look for the Helpers

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Gabriel Nathan

On The Inevitable Lightness of Democracy’s Death Spiral

It’s the New Hampshire Primary tonight so, naturally, I’m thinking about the scene in the John Waters film “Pecker” where Edward Furlong…

5 min readJan 24, 2024

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On The Inevitable Lightness of Democracy’s Death Spiral

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Gabriel Nathan

Memories of a Psych Hospital Santa

Just as there are Santa's at shopping malls and at your local fire station’s Christmas morning pancake breakfast, there are Santa's in…

6 min readDec 23, 2023

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Memories of a Psych Hospital Santa

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Gabriel Nathan

The Tragic Lives of Trolls

“My, wasn’t life awful — and wonderful?”

10 min readDec 3, 2023

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The Tragic Lives of Trolls

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Gabriel Nathan

This Suicide Awareness Month: Go Ahead; Politicize Suicide Prevention

“Don’t politicize suicide prevention,” they say, while forcing LGBTQIA+ kids into the shadows and into the closet.

3 min readSep 23, 2023

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This Suicide Awareness Month: Go Ahead; Politicize Suicide Prevention

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Gabriel Nathan

If You See Something (Should You) Say Something(?):

I’d like to write a funny essay today, but I don’t feel funny or feel like being funny. Maybe it’s too hot to be funny. Maybe it’s because…

8 min readJul 20, 2023

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If You See Something (Should You) Say Something(?):

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Gabriel Nathan

America’s Love Letter from an Immigrant’s Son

My father came here from Israel in 1972, to go to college — the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Sciences, to be exact (it isn’t there…

5 min readJul 4, 2023

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America’s Love Letter from an Immigrant’s Son

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Gabriel Nathan

Woke Ramblings of a Snowflake Libtard Father of Two About to Turn 43

Today, it’s May 8, 2023, and I’m wondering if I have the ability to post a recipe, or a prose-poem about doing laundry, or a shopping list…

4 min readMay 8, 2023

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Woke Ramblings of a Snowflake Libtard Father of Two About to Turn 43

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Gabriel Nathan

Matching Your Energy: The Police, Violence, and Mental Illness in America

Beginning on January 1, 2019, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI, for those who like acronyms and lightly buttered toast) began a…

9 min readMar 17, 2023

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Matching Your Energy: The Police, Violence, and Mental Illness in America

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Gabriel Nathan

Suicide Prevention’s Biggest Problem: It Never “Gets Better”

I recently started an “Ask Me Anything” about mental health and suicide prevention on my Instagram, and I have some pretty mixed feelings…

7 min readFeb 13, 2023

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Suicide Prevention’s Biggest Problem: It Never “Gets Better”

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Gabriel Nathan

Gabriel Nathan

Gabe is Editor in Chief of OC87 Recovery Diaries, a mental health publication. He drives an old VW year round and wears corduroy trousers in the summer.

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