Tanmoy Goswami - Sanity by Tanmoy (Page 4)

World Mental Health Day in 10 postcards

How I picture #MentalHealthDay.

A white mask against a black background. 'Rx' is inscribed one the mask's forehead area.

Lived Experience

🗝️ Sanity classics: You have the right to know what your pills can do to you. Does your doctor care?

A popular anxiety pill known to be rampantly misused and abused has sparked a global crisis. Doctors must educate patients on side effects and withdrawal.

A bundle of US dollar bills peeking out from a half-zipped bag

Notes on Therapy

Money can be a taboo topic in therapy. Here's how you can break free.

Approach your discomfort with curiosity instead of fear.

Illustration showing rows of black and white human faces, under each row a thick, squiggle red line

Culture

A campaign is asking tech companies to stop treating people's names as typos

That squiggly red line under your name can harm your mental health. A group of volunteers in the UK is fighting back.

Economics

BIG READ: Want to save vulnerable lives? Try giving them cash.

Universal basic income could be a better suicide prevention tool than antidepressants.

A plush maroon therapy couch is tumbling down a cliff

Culture

🗝️ Sanity Classics: How to survive mental health's civil war

Is therapy culture making us sick?

Socrates and Asclepius staring at each other, the latter saying "Aren't you forgetting something Socrates?"

Notes on Therapy

Society, pay thy therapists fairly

A quick history of paying for healthcare, and why supporting therapists' right to fair pay is everyone's job.

An anxious cat looks up at an angry-looking piggy bank.

Notes on Therapy

Help! My therapist is awkward about money.

A new series on a secret burden in therapy.

A mouse looks up at a mousetrap with a block of cheese as a bait

Culture

Research shows trigger warnings can do more harm than good. But it's more complicated than that.

Time to say goodbye to a staple of the (liberal, progressive) internet? Not so fast.

A photograph of a 3d shape casting two different shadow: one circular and one rectangular.

Lived Experience

It is hard for me to say I am disabled

My struggle with a sacred word.

Two outstretched hands meet a deflated and crushed basketball

Lived Experience

The pain Olympics: why you feel miserable after a big high

On the let-down effect.

Books

A video letter to you + a book on the crookedness of being

😮 175 weeks of Sanity. Also, a review of Urvashi Bahuguna's 'No Straight Thing Was Ever Made'.