Lived Experience
Stories on lived experience
🗝️Sanity Classics: Why I'm not a troublemaker
On unlearning learned helplessness.
Laugh like everyone's watching
Joy as resistance.
When your psychiatrist ghosts you
Why aren't we talking about this?
🗝️ Sanity classics: You have the right to know what your pills can do to you. Does your doctor care?
A popular anxiety pill known to be rampantly misused and abused has sparked a global crisis. Doctors must educate patients on side effects and withdrawal.
It is hard for me to say I am disabled
My struggle with a sacred word.
The pain Olympics: why you feel miserable after a big high
On the let-down effect.
🗝️ Sanity Classics: Has trauma shaped your career?
What your relationship with work could reveal about your childhood.
Ambition, dangerous darling
A personal and cultural history of a complex word.
Lived experience is hot. But what does it really mean?
11 FAQs on the hottest mental health term of our time.
Explained: Is the overuse of mental health terms driving us to cultural collapse?
A helpful lens to look at the big fight over wrong use of words like trauma and depression.
OCD is so much more than handwashing or tidying. As a historian with the disorder, here’s what I’ve learned.
While compulsive behaviour such as handwashing and checking is widely perceived as “representative” of OCD, the tormenting experience of having obsessional thoughts is still rarely acknowledged and discussed.