Lived Experience
Stories on lived experience
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.
🔬Inside the 5 big themes shaping global mental health
Looking beyond the AI frenzy.
🗝️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.