Lived Experience
Stories on lived experience
🗝️ 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.
The hills where my ambition came to die
Ambition helped me stay alive but not live. Now, it's time for it to rest.
Why do you feel it is your job to save the world?
How careers are shaped by childhood trauma.
The archaeology of depression
Five years ago - when mental health wasn't 'hot' - I started a public diary of depression. It changed my life.