Sanity turns 5
The year of the Big Slowdown.
Latest
December is for data
You don't have to be a numbers person to be fascinated by these numbers.
Sanitify III: What is treatment resistance?
One of the most vexing questions in mental health care.
Forget creepy apps and bots. This is the future of mental health technology we need.
A radical aid for people who hear distressing voices.
I am retraining my brain
6 reads that are helping me reconnect with myself.
Health update - II
Surfacing for air.
Health update
Dear Friend of Sanity, I last wrote to you a month ago, at the start of an episode of illness. Today I am reaching out with the unfortunate update that its grip over me is still strong, and I am still struggling to get back to my routine. Sanity turns
BIG READ: Therapy must stop being too nice - especially in the age of AI
'Comfort' and 'validation' are critical concepts in therapy but they must have their limits, or they might degenerate into the kind of sycophancy AI bots are accused of.
Hoarder
Why you can't throw away that strange, misshapen thing.
Sanitify II: Beware of 'female' bots
Subservient helpers, murderous seductresses.
BIG READ: Is your mental illness diagnosis helping or hurting you?
Don't read this if you want a simple answer.
Launching Sanitify: Mini-guides and explainers to complex questions
Edition 1: How to smash the money taboo in therapy
Books
✨Celebrating 'The Other Sister'
A stirring book from one of Sanity's founding members and my dear friend, Amrita Tripathi
Notes on Therapy
Therapy's 'human touch' is nearing its sell-by date
Human-ness was therapy's biggest defence against AI. It may not be enough anymore.
Culture
Are you a conflict entrepreneur?
Rage bait on social media can get you a big following. But it creates zero change.
Lived Experience
The relapse mystery and how to live with it
Making sense of one of the least talked about aspects of living with a mental health condition.
Culture
BIG READ | The four sins therapy shares with journalism, and how to fix them
Failure to keep up with technology, mistreating workers, emphasising despair over hope, lack of diversity and erosion of trust.
Notes on Therapy
▶️ MASTERCLASS | The gung-ho rise of therapy content on social media, and the ethics of therapist-content creators/-influencers
One of the most meaningful things I've ever built.
Lived Experience
🗝️ Sanity Classics: Why I write when my mind is sick (especially when my mind is sick)
Time for some detective work.
Technology
Why you should be polite to your chatbot
It could be "depressed". (Or worse, pissed off with you.)
Voices of Sanity
✨Celebrating Tessa
Staggeringly pretty and powerful words from a friend of Sanity.
Lived Experience
The unseen loneliness of the recovered patient
Why is it so hard to imagine a future without pain?
Technology
AI robot pets can be adorable and emotionally responsive. They also raise questions about attachment and mental health
Are we truly prepared for what comes next?
Lived Experience
I'm a skin toner kinda guy now
While the rest of the world is learning how to write better ChatGPT prompts, I, a 42-year-old-man, am apprenticing in the language of toiletries.