Lived Experience
The unseen loneliness of the recovered patient
Why is it so hard to imagine a future without pain?
Tanmoy Goswami
Founding editor, Sanity by Tanmoy
Technology
AI robot pets can be adorable and emotionally responsive. They also raise questions about attachment and mental health
Are we truly prepared for what comes next?
Lived Experience
I'm a skin toner kinda guy now
While the rest of the world is learning how to write better ChatGPT prompts, I, a 42-year-old-man, am apprenticing in the language of toiletries.
Notes on Therapy
Your therapist is a social media star. What would Freud, Jung, Adler, Winnicott, and Klein say?
Plus a note on the future of Sanity.
Culture
🗝️ Sanity Classics: The psychology of "How dare you ask for personal space?!"
Independence v interdependence.
Culture
🗝️Sanity Classics: Everything sick and bigoted is not a 'mental illness'
But it could be similar to a contagion and a public health challenge.
Culture
Why You Shouldn't Believe Everything You Think
What Joseph Nguyen, the bestselling author of 'Don't Believe Everything You Think', wants you to know about your mind.
Culture
🔬Inside the 5 big themes shaping global mental health
Looking beyond the AI frenzy.
Culture
The problematic politics of 'healed people heal people'
What does it mean to be a 'healed' individual in an era of licensed bigotry against those the majority considers unhealed?
Lived Experience
🗝️Sanity Classics: Why I'm not a troublemaker
On unlearning learned helplessness.
Culture
How quitting smoking helped me quit the news
Notes on going cold turkey.
Updates on Sanity
Sanity's biggest year begins
It's a landmark year for our community. I need your help to chart our direction.