mental illness
We Need to Talk About Art’s Obsession With the ‘Tortured Genius’
Does the correlation between creativity and mental illness ultimately do us harm?
What It’s Like to Be Forced to Take Anti-Psychotic Drugs
After involuntary mental health treatment many patients feel afraid to seek more help. A constitutional challenge could change the way patients consent to treatment in British Columbia.
The Heartbreaking Stories Behind Prison Inmates' Art
We talked to some of the artists featured in a new gallery exhibition that showcases work made by inmates while in prison.
Should You Tell Work About Your Mental Health Condition?
It can still be dangerous to disclose your condition to your line manager, so how can we change work culture to protect the mentally ill?
What to Say to a Suicidal Friend, from People Who’ve Been There
Helping a suicidal loved one often means a drastic shift in your relationship. We asked people who have been there what they needed most in a friend.
What It's Like to Have Borderline Personality Disorder
"I keep seeing my neighbor's pool in winter, just an empty bowl of dusty blue tiles. Imagine standing in the middle of that, when suddenly, the pool fills up. In an instant, you're drowning."
The Death of Meat-Meat: What Happened After Cops Killed a Mentally Ill Black Man on Camera
How the police shooting of a mentally ill black man has flown under the radar in 2016 America.
Fuck Music, Let’s Talk About Feelings: FYF Fest
So Sad Today went to this year's festival to talk to musicians whose work is "sad," "dark," "nostalgic," or "melancholic" about what happiness is, what it means to them, and how to get it.
How Mentally Ill Hasidic Women Slip Though Cracks in the System
Isolated from secular society and often at the mercy of unlicensed therapists who can do more harm than good, it can be nearly impossible for women in New York's ultra-Orthodox world to find the help they need.
I Grew as a Person and It Sucks
It was not for moral reasons that I finally quit engaging in casual sex, sexting, and the cultivation of crushes and romantic obsessions. But, for me, the pain of disappointment and chemical withdrawal eventually became so fierce that I had to quit the...
Eating Gives Me Anxiety and Not Eating Gives Me Anxiety
Lately, I feel that the way I've lived for years—in hyperconscious, hypervigilant awareness of everything I put in my mouth—no longer serves to quell my depression and anxiety. It actually exacerbates it.