Lived Experience - Sanity by Tanmoy

Updates on Sanity

Health update - II

Surfacing for air

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Hoarder

Why you can't throw away that strange, misshapen thing.

Culture

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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The relapse mystery and how to live with it

Making sense of one of the least talked about aspects of living with a mental health condition.

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🗝️ Sanity Classics: Why I write when my mind is sick (especially when my mind is sick)

Time for some detective work.

A bunch of withering white roses stand apart from a solitary red rose with lush green leaves

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The unseen loneliness of the recovered patient

Why is it so hard to imagine a future without pain?

Illustration showing a silhouette of a man superimposed on cosmetic bottles and tubes

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I'm a skin toner kinda guy now

While the rest of the world is learning how to write better ChatGPT prompts, I, a 42-year-old-man, am apprenticing in the language of toiletries.

Culture

🔬Inside the 5 big themes shaping global mental health

Looking beyond the AI frenzy.

A signboard on a beach that reads: "Just don't do it - Mike", a spoof of Nike's "Just do it" campaign

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🗝️Sanity Classics: Why I'm not a troublemaker

On unlearning learned helplessness.

Culture

Laugh like everyone's watching

Joy as resistance.

Illustration of a ghost draped in a white sheet with two holes cut out for the eyes against the backdrop of pills

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When your psychiatrist ghosts you

Why aren't we talking about this?

A white mask against a black background. 'Rx' is inscribed one the mask's forehead area.

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🗝️ 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.