Culture
Stories on the intersection of mental health and culture.
The fascinating, untold story of #MentalHealth Twitter
What can Twitter's new CEO do to take forward one of the platform's most compelling but unsung legacies?
Healing history
A new history of mental health care exhumes a long-forgotten chapter of colonial rule.
Trauma is a planetary emergency, not a personal problem
A community battered by trauma is like a cracked cup. Whatever resources you pour into will leak out.
People of no nation
Who are you when no nation claims you? Millions of stateless people navigate life unrecognised by any country. They are the literal citizens of nowhere.
Monster
A World Cup winning coach tells me why sport's most sacred trait - mental toughness - is also its most dangerous.
No, therapy apps won't kill Freud
Freudian psychoanalysis and cognitive behavioural therapy have been at war over the soul of therapy. Can the rise of technology deliver a winner?
On my sudden love of horror
What in the name of the father, the son, and the holy ghost is happening to me?
Exorcism
Seventy years ago, my grandaunt was 'possessed' by an evil spirit. The haunting continues all around us.
What Sanity readers are dreaming of
Six readers weigh in on the complex present and ideal future of mental health. Keyword: acceptance.
It's time to drop suicide from cricket's vocabulary
Suicide cannot be a metaphor to describe (sporting) blunders. The game I love needs to take the lead.
"It's all in your head": Long Covid raises nightmarish questions about medical gaslighting of women
Long Covid has sparked a culture war between survivors and medical experts over what constitutes 'trustworthy' scientific evidence. This is the story of how it could be disproportionately affecting women, seen through the eyes of a two-time Covid survivor.
🎂 Happy anniversary, bizarre Covid dreams
Covid changed the way we dream. What lies ahead?