Politics

Stories on the intersection of mental health and politics.

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🗝️ Sanity Classics: The 'idiots' fight back. Or, why being incurious is awesome.

What's the relationship between curiosity, colonialism, and 'idiocy'?

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BIG READ: Predicting 2024's mental health megatrends

AI, wars, youth mental health, peer support, climate change, and other crucial themes.

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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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The radical power of being incurious

When resisting curiosity is an act of revolution.

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'The Fish Pamphlet', the most important mental health document you never heard of, turns 50

In 1972, a group of mental health advocates and patients in the UK came together with a radical plan: create a 'mental patients union'. Many of their central demands remain as relevant fifty years later.

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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.

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Grief is not a disorder. Even if it is 'prolonged'.

Unfortunately, there is no diagnosis that can outlaw injustice.

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War, trauma, hope

How to talk to humans who lived through war; community trauma; war and children, and a Hiroshima survivor speaks.

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Dependence

Seeking care does not mean writing off our right to know what that care consists of.

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Hope lives despite the absurdity of mental health budgets

The magic of mental health is that everything impacts it, and it impacts everything. So change can come from anywhere.

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Erasure: the 'world' according to five rich countries

From healthcare to business, the definition of 'the world' is shrinking with a chilling matter-of-factness.

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The mental health tech debate is not about tech at all

Why the increasingly loud debate over the role of technology in mental health is a dangerous distraction.