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'The Fish Pamphlet', the most important mental health document you never heard of, turns 50
In 1972, a group of mental health advocates and patients in the UK came together with a radical plan: create a 'mental patients union'. Many of their central demands remain as relevant fifty years later.
🎙️Sanity readers speak up on the Great Serotonin Wars
"Depression in most people isn't caused by chemical imbalance, in my opinion. It is caused by the loss of autonomy."
What Indonesia can teach us about suicide prevention after Covid
Loneliness, financial insecurity, and marginalisation aggravate the risk of self-harm and suicide related to Covid, confirms a new paper from the Southeast Asian country. Are policymakers listening?
🗳️ You and the Great Serotonin Wars
What do lived experts make of the big new study debunking the 'chemical imbalance' theory of depression?
Men don't talk about mental health. Barbers are changing that.
Barbershops are revolutionising men's mental health. A trim for your messy hair - and feelings? What's not to love?
Your loud is becoming my loud. And I didn't opt in.
Passive audio is the new passive smoking.
🗝️ Sanity Classics: Finding the missing older people in stories about depression
Depression is the leading mental health challenge among older adults. Why then do we treat it as an exclusively young person's problem?
🗝️ Sanity Classics: "I am sad papa, and I don't know why"
Hopeful notes on parenting with depression.
Listen: When cash is better than antidepressants
If I were to tell you that there exists an intervention that could cause a 61% drop in the likelihood of an individual dying by suicide, what would you guess it could be?
The life-saving case for cash transfers
This could well be the most important question in the post-pandemic world: can putting money in the hands of people prevent suicides?
DSM is a #1 bestseller on Amazon. Its review page is a hilarious cultural war zone.
The reviews of the DSM-5-TR on Amazon are a Tarantino take on Laurel and Hardy: violent, moody, and very LOL.
Data. Ta-da!
How would you feel if your therapist sold your private information to advertisers?
