Culture
Stories on the intersection of mental health and culture.
🗳️ You and the Great Serotonin Wars
What do lived experts make of the big new study debunking the 'chemical imbalance' theory of depression?
Men don't talk about mental health. Barbers are changing that.
Barbershops are revolutionising men's mental health. A trim for your messy hair - and feelings? What's not to love?
Your loud is becoming my loud. And I didn't opt in.
Passive audio is the new passive smoking.
🗝️ Sanity Classics: Finding the missing older people in stories about depression
Depression is the leading mental health challenge among older adults. Why then do we treat it as an exclusively young person's problem?
🗝️ Sanity Classics: "I am sad papa, and I don't know why"
Hopeful notes on parenting with depression.
Lamotri-gene
An ode to my mood stabiliser.
Bigotry is not a mental illness. And mental illness is not a prop for outrage.
Equating hate and bigotry with mental illness violates the humanity of people who live with mental illness.
Grief is not a disorder. Even if it is 'prolonged'.
Unfortunately, there is no diagnosis that can outlaw injustice.
War, trauma, hope
How to talk to humans who lived through war; community trauma; war and children, and a Hiroshima survivor speaks.
Dependence
Seeking care does not mean writing off our right to know what that care consists of.
Hello from the other side
I'm trying to find words, because I don't know what else I can do.
Long Covid is making people want to kill themselves
We need to stop pretending this is not happening.