Politics
Stories on the intersection of mental health and politics.
🗝️ Sanity Classics: The 'idiots' fight back. Or, why being incurious is awesome.
What's the relationship between curiosity, colonialism, and 'idiocy'?
BIG READ: Predicting 2024's mental health megatrends
AI, wars, youth mental health, peer support, climate change, and other crucial themes.
🗝️ Sanity Classics: Diagnosis - angel or demon?
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.
The radical power of being incurious
When resisting curiosity is an act of revolution.
'The Fish Pamphlet', the most important mental health document you never heard of, turns 50
In 1972, a group of mental health advocates and patients in the UK came together with a radical plan: create a 'mental patients union'. Many of their central demands remain as relevant fifty years later.
Bigotry is not a mental illness. And mental illness is not a prop for outrage.
Equating hate and bigotry with mental illness violates the humanity of people who live with mental illness.
Grief is not a disorder. Even if it is 'prolonged'.
Unfortunately, there is no diagnosis that can outlaw injustice.
War, trauma, hope
How to talk to humans who lived through war; community trauma; war and children, and a Hiroshima survivor speaks.
Dependence
Seeking care does not mean writing off our right to know what that care consists of.
Hope lives despite the absurdity of mental health budgets
The magic of mental health is that everything impacts it, and it impacts everything. So change can come from anywhere.
Erasure: the 'world' according to five rich countries
From healthcare to business, the definition of 'the world' is shrinking with a chilling matter-of-factness.
The mental health tech debate is not about tech at all
Why the increasingly loud debate over the role of technology in mental health is a dangerous distraction.