Culture
Stories on the intersection of mental health and culture.
🗝️ Sanity Classics: Finding the missing older people in stories about depression
Depression is the leading mental health challenge among older adults. Why then do we treat it as an exclusively young person's problem?
🗝️ Sanity Classics: "I am sad papa, and I don't know why"
Hopeful notes on parenting with depression.
Lamotri-gene
An ode to my mood stabiliser.
Bigotry is not a mental illness. And mental illness is not a prop for outrage.
Equating hate and bigotry with mental illness violates the humanity of people who live with mental illness.
Grief is not a disorder. Even if it is 'prolonged'.
Unfortunately, there is no diagnosis that can outlaw injustice.
War, trauma, hope
How to talk to humans who lived through war; community trauma; war and children, and a Hiroshima survivor speaks.
Dependence
Seeking care does not mean writing off our right to know what that care consists of.
Hello from the other side
I'm trying to find words, because I don't know what else I can do.
Long Covid is making people want to kill themselves
We need to stop pretending this is not happening.
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?
Healing history
A new history of mental health care exhumes a long-forgotten chapter of colonial rule.
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.