Tanmoy Goswami

🎧 How to talk to someone living through war

Psychiatrist and conflict medicine expert Joseph El-Khoury grew up in Lebanon during the country's bloody civil war. "It's not just about a country falling apart," he says of the tragedy in Afghanistan. "It's about people."

Audio Stories

🎧 "It's not just about a country falling apart. It's about people."

Step 1 of understanding mental health and trauma in conflict zones: People living through war don't just want to talk about war.

Radical Hope

Cybergrief has no unsubscribe button

My fantasy is to be able to choose my grief. I want to mark as spam all the grief in the world that I cannot handle. But grief born on the internet doesn't care for my fantasy.

Culture

Let's talk: Has the mental health pendulum really swung too far?

Are we creating a culture where celebrating healing and recovery is ridiculed and demonised?

Culture

Does diagnosis help or harm? Or, why we name our demons

Mental health diagnoses are often attacked for being unscientific, oppressive, and prone to abuse. But for many, they remain the only route to dignity and sanity.

Updates on Sanity

This is probably the wildest thing I've done in my life

👋🏾 Welcome to Sanity by Tanmoy's new home. Hope you like the view.

Updates on Sanity

Sanity is moving to a great new home + our half-yearly report card

We've come far in the past six months, and now we are going places!

Workplace mental health

How to tell if your workplace mental health scheme is a greenwashing scam

The environment sector has a handy rule book to identify bullshit claims. It's time to use it to test workplaces too.

Notes on Therapy

The year you healed your therapist

We are witnessing a profound shift in the traditional therapist-client relationship.

Radical Hope

🌻 Special edition: "Hope is a discipline" and 5 other ideas to live by in hopeless times

Hope is hard work, but maybe, just maybe, it is within our grasp.

Culture

Should crying clubs be declared essential public infrastructure?

Crying is said to have superpowers - such as flushing toxins from the body. But we shouldn't need 'science' to build a case for crying.

Culture

🎟 Let's talk about crying

Sobbing, weeping, or bawling - whatever your method, I invite you to join me for a special conversation with Heather Christle, author of The Crying Book, an incandescent ode to our tears.