Culture

Stories on the intersection of mental health and culture.

Tanmoy Goswami 07 Sep 2021

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Maa's meat shelf

How we eat makes us who we are as much as what we eat.

Tanmoy Goswami 30 Aug 2021

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Let's talk: How to feel good about food again

Food was the only form of pleasure I allowed myself without guilt. I am afraid I am losing it, and I don't want to.

Tanmoy Goswami 19 Aug 2021

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Cybergrief has no unsubscribe button

My fantasy is to be able to choose my grief. I want to mark as spam all the grief in the world that I cannot handle. But grief born on the internet doesn't care for my fantasy.

Tanmoy Goswami 16 Aug 2021

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Let's talk: Has the mental health pendulum really swung too far?

Are we creating a culture where celebrating healing and recovery is ridiculed and demonised?

Tanmoy Goswami 12 Aug 2021

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Does diagnosis help or harm? Or, why we name our demons

Mental health diagnoses are often attacked for being unscientific, oppressive, and prone to abuse. But for many, they remain the only route to dignity and sanity.

Tanmoy Goswami 18 May 2021

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🌻 Special edition: "Hope is a discipline" and 5 other ideas to live by in hopeless times

Hope is hard work, but maybe, just maybe, it is within our grasp.

Tanmoy Goswami 13 May 2021

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Should crying clubs be declared essential public infrastructure?

Crying is said to have superpowers - such as flushing toxins from the body. But we shouldn't need 'science' to build a case for crying.

Tanmoy Goswami 06 May 2021

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🎟 Let's talk about crying

Sobbing, weeping, or bawling - whatever your method, I invite you to join me for a special conversation with Heather Christle, author of The Crying Book, an incandescent ode to our tears.