Updates on Sanity
UPDATE: Why I turned down a funding offer for Sanity
Not every idea needs to 'grow' and 'scale' and take over the world. Some ideas fulfil their destiny when they remain small and serve the world in their own small way.
Latest
Culture
What Breaking Bad taught me about intersectionality
Using the Greatest Show Ever Made to explain the Greatest Concept Ever in mental health.
Technology
🗝️ Sanity classics: Why we mourn Twitter
The story of how this hellsite became the unlikely online headquarters of the mental health movement.
Workplace mental health
🗝️ Sanity Classics: How to spot 'wellbeing washing'
Timeless lessons from the climate movement on how to sniff out workplace mental health BS.
Economics
'Productivity Compromised by Grief' ™
When you put a price tag on grief, you are basically turning it into a commodity.
Books
Mega madness and disability book list
Fifty books to transform your thinking, courtesy a magical Twitter thread.
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.
Notes on Therapy
Why therapy can't laugh at psychiatry - Part 2
Psychiatry is in crisis. Is this a chance for therapy to claim moral superiority? Erm, no. Final part of a two-part story.
Notes on Therapy
Why therapy can't laugh at psychiatry - Part 1
Psychiatry is in crisis. Is this a chance for therapy to claim moral superiority? Erm, no. Part 1 of a two-part story.
Radical Hope
World Suicide Prevention Day: four resources to help save lives
Understand. Read. Learn. Share.
Voices of Sanity
How colonialism lives on in the mental health care system
Why much of the mental health care system is not about care at all.
'LinkedIn Top Voice in Social Impact' + announcing next community meet-up
Hope is hard work. If Sanity has helped even one person find hope, that's good enough for me.