Lived Experience

Lived Experience

The pain Olympics: why you feel miserable after a big high

On the let-down effect.

Workplace mental health

🗝️ Sanity Classics: Has trauma shaped your career?

What your relationship with work could reveal about your childhood.

Lived Experience

A DIY manual for how to share your struggles with family and friends, and how to listen well when they do

Start here.

Lived Experience

Ambition, dangerous darling

A personal and cultural history of a complex word.

Lived Experience

Lived experience is hot. But what does it really mean?

11 FAQs on the hottest mental health term of our time.

Culture

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.

Lived Experience

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.

Lived Experience

A nightmare and a miracle turn 19

The story of the boarding pass I refuse to throw away.

Lived Experience

Meet Ikea, psychotherapist

Assembling furniture for the first time in your life = being in your body = quietening the noise in your head.

Lived Experience

What if I am out of words?

Notes on silence (and the future of Sanity).

Lived Experience

"Don't get into trouble"

Up close with learned helplessness.

Lived Experience

"You always come to me"

Doctors said he wouldn't live past thirty. Chhotka made a fool of them. He was my safe space. And he was the freest man I've ever known.