What Indonesia can teach us about suicide prevention after Covid
Loneliness, financial insecurity, and marginalisation aggravate the risk of self-harm and suicide related to Covid, confirms a new paper from the Southeast Asian country. Are policymakers listening?
🗳️ You and the Great Serotonin Wars
What do lived experts make of the big new study debunking the 'chemical imbalance' theory of depression?
Men don't talk about mental health. Barbers are changing that.
Barbershops are revolutionising men's mental health. A trim for your messy hair - and feelings? What's not to love?
🗝️ 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.
Listen: When cash is better than antidepressants
If I were to tell you that there exists an intervention that could cause a 61% drop in the likelihood of an individual dying by suicide, what would you guess it could be?
The life-saving case for cash transfers
This could well be the most important question in the post-pandemic world: can putting money in the hands of people prevent suicides?
DSM is a #1 bestseller on Amazon. Its review page is a hilarious cultural war zone.
The reviews of the DSM-5-TR on Amazon are a Tarantino take on Laurel and Hardy: violent, moody, and very LOL.
Data. Ta-da!
How would you feel if your therapist sold your private information to advertisers?
"Let them eat cake," feat. workplace mental health
The upside down world of workplace mental health training programmes.
Lamotri-gene
An ode to my mood stabiliser.
Ten years of saving lives: how Bangladesh’s first suicide prevention helpline proved naysayers wrong
When Yeshim Iqbal started Kaan Pete Roi 10 years ago, a suicide prevention helpline was an unheard-of idea in Bangladesh. Today, it is a case study on how to run a powerful, volunteer-driven platform in a resource-constrained setting.