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.
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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.
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🗝️ Sanity Classics: The psychology of "How dare you ask for personal space?!"
Independence v interdependence.
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🗝️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.
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🔬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.
Culture
Laugh like everyone's watching
Joy as resistance.
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🗝️Sanity Classics: Empathy be damned
Why you need to worry about the rise of the 'empathy industrial complex'