Lonely in America
Loneliness is natural, “designed to alert its host to a need, just like sensations of hunger or thirst or exhaustion.”
Curbing the Overdose Epidemic: An Author’s Call to Drop Our Moralistic Blinders and Save Lives
Author Maia Szalavitz makes a formidable case that embracing harm reduction will help end the opioid overdose epidemic.
“Crying in H Mart” Resonates in a Time of Endless Loss
“Crying in H Mart” helps a Korean-American family through grievous loss.
How Psychosis and Internet Obsession Brought Two Girls to the Brink of Murder
In 2014, two 12-year-old girls lured a third into the woods and stabbed her repeatedly. The stabbings tell a tragic story about the deficiencies of the mental health and criminal justice systems in the U.S. – and the terrible things that often happen when they collide. Kathleen Hale tells this story in her new book.
Reading Between the Lines: A Literary Mystery about Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath was lauded for her genius as a poet, but danger was lurking. This novel examines her profound legacy.
Sam Quinones on How Fentanyl and Meth Hijacked Our Country
Sam Quinones offers a powerful journalistic account of how fentanyl and P2P meth came to ravage our country and users’ psyches – and how people addicted can recover.
Crying on the Subway: A Journalist Explores Her Trauma History
Talented journalist Stephanie Foo thought she had conquered her demons from an abusive childhood. So why was she so bereft?
We Interrupt This Program to Bring You #BlackJoy
We Black people—Black Americans in this case—know hard times, but our lives also sparkle with joy. Black joy, and not just Black trauma, is our inheritance.
Librarians’ Mental Health Threatened By Book Bans, Abuse And Harassment
Some librarians used to make jokes about Fahrenheit 451 as they pushed back on threats of censorship. But now it hits too close to home.
When Positivity Becomes Toxic
We are in the #GoodVibesOnly age, and it’s kind of a bummer. The book Toxic Positivity points the way toward authenticity.
‘There Is Only One Bus’: Reflections on a New Path to Mental Health
As with the fight for civil rights or climate change, it’s going to take a movement, with families at the core of that effort. We need to reframe this crisis as more than a medical challenge: It is an issue of social justice.
Why Is Mental Illness Dogged by Stigma?
In Nobody’s Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker makes a compelling argument to embrace neurodiversity while tracing the stigma of mental illness back to the Industrial Revolution.
