Mental health impacts everything impacts mental health.
Read that again.
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OCD is so much more than handwashing or tidying. As a historian with the disorder, here’s what I’ve learned.
While compulsive behaviour such as handwashing and checking is widely perceived as “representative” of OCD, the tormenting experience of having obsessional thoughts is still rarely acknowledged and discussed.
BIG READ: Predicting 2024's mental health megatrends
AI, wars, youth mental health, peer support, climate change, and other crucial themes.
A nightmare and a miracle turn 19
The story of the boarding pass I refuse to throw away.
Sanity turns three
Overcoming the 'three-year itch', one story at a time.
Meet Ikea, psychotherapist
Assembling furniture for the first time in your life = being in your body = quietening the noise in your head.
What if I am out of words?
Notes on silence (and the future of Sanity).
🗝️ Sanity classics: Bring on the horror
Horror as exposure therapy.
🗝️ Sanity Classics: What's the protocol for sharing a therapist with friends?
Unpacking a tricky question.
"Don't get into trouble"
Up close with learned helplessness.
On therapeutic witnessing
How do we witness another's unbearable pain?
The "orphan" that is young people's mental health
What we don't talk about when we talk about parenting and mental health. (Money. I am talking about money.)
