Sanity by Tanmoy (Page 17)

Technology

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.

Updates on Sanity

Bridging the gap between 'Dr' and 'Mr'

I got to write about the lived experience of suicidality in a strategic paper on suicide prevention in India, published today in The Lancet Psychiatry.

Radical Hope

The fascinating, untold story of #MentalHealth Twitter

What can Twitter's new CEO do to take forward one of the platform's most compelling but unsung legacies?

Notes on Therapy

Your therapist is a chameleon. How does that make you feel?

Therapy's great promise was constancy. Not any more.

Photos of Daman Singh and her book Asylum: The Battle for Mental Healthcare in India, side by side.

Politics

Healing history

A new history of mental health care exhumes a long-forgotten chapter of colonial rule.

Culture

Trauma is a planetary emergency, not a personal problem

A community battered by trauma is like a cracked cup. Whatever resources you pour into will leak out.

Down with empathy

Human beings don't need to understand each other to do the right thing.

Radical Hope

How to give birth to yourself

When does illness become identity, and how do you change the script? A short story.

Updates on Sanity

🚨 Paid project alert: Help me grow Sanity's reach in the student community

<The deadline to apply for this is now over.> I am keen to work with a student growth manager who will help me expand the reach and subscriber base of Sanity by Tanmoy, my independent mental health journalism platform, in the student community. In this post, you will

Politics

People of no nation

Who are you when no nation claims you? Millions of stateless people navigate life unrecognised by any country. They are the literal citizens of nowhere.

Workplace mental health

Monster

A World Cup winning coach tells me why sport's most sacred trait - mental toughness - is also its most dangerous.