Notes on Therapy
Do you share your therapist with friends?
It's a personal, moral, and ethical question but also a universal, political, and economic one.
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Economics
This year, don't 'invest' in mental health
The language of ‘investment’ is taking the mental health conversation backwards.
Updates on Sanity
🎁 Collector's edition: the sanest listicle of 2021
Ten collectible quotes from 10 stories that made me cry and smile and kept me sane.
Updates on Sanity
🎉 Happy 1st birthday to us
Editorial highlights, financial numbers, stuff that didn't work, recognition for Sanity, and plans for 2022. Enjoy :)
Technology
The mental health tech debate is not about tech at all
Why the increasingly loud debate over the role of technology in mental health is a dangerous distraction.
Updates on Sanity
Bridging the gap between 'Dr' and 'Mr'
I got to write about the lived experience of suicidality in a strategic paper on suicide prevention in India, published today in The Lancet Psychiatry.
Radical Hope
The fascinating, untold story of #MentalHealth Twitter
What can Twitter's new CEO do to take forward one of the platform's most compelling but unsung legacies?
Notes on Therapy
Your therapist is a chameleon. How does that make you feel?
Therapy's great promise was constancy. Not any more.
Politics
Healing history
A new history of mental health care exhumes a long-forgotten chapter of colonial rule.
Culture
Trauma is a planetary emergency, not a personal problem
A community battered by trauma is like a cracked cup. Whatever resources you pour into will leak out.
Down with empathy
Human beings don't need to understand each other to do the right thing.
Radical Hope
How to give birth to yourself
When does illness become identity, and how do you change the script? A short story.