Lived Experience
"You always come to me"
Doctors said he wouldn't live past thirty. Chhotka made a fool of them. He was my safe space. And he was the freest man I've ever known.
Lived Experience
Stories on lived experience
(Re)parenting
Breaking good
A visual map to understand intergenerational suffering.
Voices of Sanity
What my maddening itch taught me
We need to talk about the broken link between physical and mental health care.
Culture
🗝️ 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.
Lived Experience
The hills where my ambition came to die
Ambition helped me stay alive but not live. Now, it's time for it to rest.
Workplace mental health
Why do you feel it is your job to save the world?
How careers are shaped by childhood trauma.
Notes on Therapy
The archaeology of depression
Five years ago - when mental health wasn't 'hot' - I started a public diary of depression. It changed my life.