Culture

Stories on the intersection of mental health and culture.

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Sanitify II: Beware of 'female' bots

Subservient helpers, murderous seductresses.

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BIG READ: Is your mental illness diagnosis helping or hurting you?

Don't read this if you want a simple answer.

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Are you a conflict entrepreneur?

Rage bait on social media can get you a big following. But it creates zero change.

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BIG READ | The four sins therapy shares with journalism, and how to fix them

Failure to keep up with technology, mistreating workers, emphasising despair over hope, lack of diversity and erosion of trust.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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How quitting smoking helped me quit the news

Notes on going cold turkey.

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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'