mental-health

  • In this story‑essay, Ivo turns a simple football night into a stage for unfiltered truth. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle gather in a Piraeus fan club, where a casual joke about living “no condom” turns into a meditation on masks, mediation, and the risks of honesty. Through their dialogue – half‑serious, half‑comic – the match mirrors…

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  • In this piece, Georgiev examines how the figure of “the stranger” has shifted from a temporary condition to a permanent state in modern life. Drawing from Alfred Schutz’s concept, he traces the evolution from the outsider who struggles to belong to the individual who adapts so completely that belonging itself becomes unclear. Set against both…

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  • The Apology…

    DABOISASTRGLEDT – by Ivaniel “Ivo” Georgiev I don’t know about this one, DABOIS. I was supposed to upload something today, but I haven’t finished the article I was preparing. These last couple of months were tough, and the hardship continues. It’s not the right moment to discuss it. It’s really not. And I don’t know…

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  • DABOISASTRGLEDT – by Ivaniel “Ivo” Georgiev DABOIS, it’s time for another blog post. Last week I had an anthropology exam—the final for this semester, worth 50% of my grade. I had to explain Hume’s idea that reason is a slave of passions. I did, but I did it in pure DABOIS style. No phones, no…

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  • In a 30-part poem inspired by a single Manousos’s speech, Georgiev dissects the collapse between oppressor and oppressed. YOU and US mirror each other—both magnificent scum, cut from the same meat. Through mythology, rage catalogues, and multilingual fragments, he traces the arc from declaration to despair. The hero becomes a dumbfuck living in a box.…

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  • Gandhi’s famous words aren’t a comfort – they’re a demand. This week, Georgiev dissects a phrase about what real change actually requires: not posts or protests, but the brutal work of transformation when no one’s watching. He tears apart the gap between who we claim to be and who we actually are – the lies…

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  • Georgiev dissects a failed date and the chronic self-sabotage that follows him through every connection he attempts. Drawing parallels to Punch-Drunk Love’s Barry Egan, he confesses to years of lying—small lies that shaped his mouth until even truth hesitated on the way out. The essay spirals through dating, loneliness, and the exhausting performance of being…

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