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Ten years of saving lives: how Bangladesh’s first suicide prevention helpline proved naysayers wrong
When Yeshim Iqbal started Kaan Pete Roi 10 years ago, a suicide prevention helpline was an unheard-of idea in Bangladesh. Today, it is a case study on how to run a powerful, volunteer-driven platform in a resource-constrained setting.
Update: a fellowship and the future of Sanity
A chance to strengthen the foundations of independent mental health journalism rooted in the global south.
Hope, empowerment, action: a new series dedicated to suicide prevention
In a first, Sanity is partnering Mariwala Health Initiative to tell powerful stories on tackling one of the biggest public health crises of our time.
The problem with our obsession with stigma
Anti-stigma campaigns suck away oxygen from a far more urgent cause: ending discrimination.
Bigotry is not a mental illness. And mental illness is not a prop for outrage.
Equating hate and bigotry with mental illness violates the humanity of people who live with mental illness.
Grief is not a disorder. Even if it is 'prolonged'.
Unfortunately, there is no diagnosis that can outlaw injustice.
Mental health's cybersecurity nightmare is here. Now what?
In March alone, three alarming cybersecurity incidents have been reported in mental health organisations across the world.
Data v humans: this is how we win the battle for the future of mental healthcare
Disturbing application of user data by a popular mental health helpline shocked the world. We must push back.
What omelette making can teach you about workplace mental health
Don't move fast and break things.
Werewolf
Prioritising wellbeing isn’t the soothing, candle-lit, rose-petaled bath we might picture it to be.
War, trauma, hope
How to talk to humans who lived through war; community trauma; war and children, and a Hiroshima survivor speaks.
