Suicide Prevention | in Association with MHI
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?
Tanmoy Goswami
Founding editor, Sanity by Tanmoy
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.
Technology
Data. Ta-da!
How would you feel if your therapist sold your private information to advertisers?
Workplace mental health
"Let them eat cake," feat. workplace mental health
The upside down world of workplace mental health training programmes.
Culture
Lamotri-gene
An ode to my mood stabiliser.
Suicide Prevention | in Association with MHI
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.
Updates on Sanity
Update: a fellowship and the future of Sanity
A chance to strengthen the foundations of independent mental health journalism rooted in the global south.
Suicide Prevention | in Association with MHI
Hope, empowerment, action: a new series dedicated to suicide prevention
In a first, Sanity is partnering Mariwala Health Initiative to tell powerful stories on tackling one of the biggest public health crises of our time.
The problem with our obsession with stigma
Anti-stigma campaigns suck away oxygen from a far more urgent cause: ending discrimination.
Culture
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.
Hang out with Sanity at the International Journalism Festival 🙂
Politics
Grief is not a disorder. Even if it is 'prolonged'.
Unfortunately, there is no diagnosis that can outlaw injustice.