Culture
Stories on the intersection of mental health and culture.
🗝️ Sanity Classics: The psychology of "How dare you ask for personal space?!"
Independence v interdependence.
🗝️Sanity Classics: Everything sick and bigoted is not a 'mental illness'
But it could be similar to a contagion and a public health challenge.
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.
🔬Inside the 5 big themes shaping global mental health
Looking beyond the AI frenzy.
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?
How quitting smoking helped me quit the news
Notes on going cold turkey.
Laugh like everyone's watching
Joy as resistance.
🗝️Sanity Classics: Empathy be damned
Why you need to worry about the rise of the 'empathy industrial complex'
'Plizzz say my name!'
Feel lonely and unseen? Have you tried sending a Super Chat to your favourite YouTuber?
Brain rot is the word of the year. Meh.
Tell me something new.
Freethink Friday: Edition 1 | What do you have in common with therapists?
I'll go first: Here's what journalists and therapists have in common.
A campaign is asking tech companies to stop treating people's names as typos
That squiggly red line under your name can harm your mental health. A group of volunteers in the UK is fighting back.