Culture

Stories on the intersection of mental health and culture.

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"Help! My child wants space!"

Why 'space' and 'boundaries' are emotionally wrenching ideas for many parents.

Tanmoy Goswami
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🗝️ Sanity Classics: Ask your child what they do for a living

How not to alienate kids with 'strange' careers.

Tanmoy Goswami
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"The parenting industry feeds our childhood wounds by telling us we aren't enough"

How to move beyond trauma.

Tanmoy Goswami
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🗝️ Sanity Classics: Diagnosis - angel or demon?

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.

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Big read: The untold story of how therapists turned leaders

A story for the ages.

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Why are kids obsessed with dinosaurs?

It tells us an important story about being human.

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🗝️ Sanity classics: How touch shaped the world

A fascinating cultural history of our biggest sense organ.

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🥳 Ten years of crying clubs

In 2013, a visionary entrepreneur started the world's first crying club in Japan. What have we learnt about crying alone and in a pack?

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Three mental health megatrends to watch in 2023

The science of psychedelics turns a corner. The app bubble grows bigger. Wellness washing begins to die.

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What Breaking Bad taught me about intersectionality

Using the Greatest Show Ever Made to explain the Greatest Concept Ever in mental health.

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🗝️ Sanity classics: Why we mourn Twitter

The story of how this hellsite became the unlikely online headquarters of the mental health movement.

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🗝️ Sanity Classics: How to spot 'wellbeing washing'

Timeless lessons from the climate movement on how to sniff out workplace mental health BS.