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Published in: TransformationStaying alive: Kate Bornstein gives the finger to cancer, suicide, and the gender binary
"Once you break down a huge fucking binary like gender, no other binaries seem to make sense": an interview with the...
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Published in: TransformationI stopped eating animals because of human rights
What does the meat industry do to people’s mental health?
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Published in: TransformationWorkaholics anonymous: four ways to take time out
Being an effective, productive employee was everything I dreamt of. Until illness caught up with me and I had to...
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Published in: TransformationWhen resting is resistance
Activists fixate on the future: impatient for the world we want to see. But falling into the capitalist trap of...
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Published in: TransformationWork less, play more
The 40-hour work week is an ingrained part of our culture, but it does very little to enrich our lives. Here's how...
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Published in: TransformationMadness and oppression
What if emotional sensitivities were seen, not as mental illnesses to be cured, but as gifts to be managed in ways...
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Published in: TransformationWhy does religion turn from beauty into beast?
Trauma and abuse are common in faiths supposedly built on love. What's going on?
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Published in: TransformationWe need to talk about PTSD
Using the hashtag #PTSDChat to spread the word, I paint the trauma of war veterans, rape survivors and first responders.
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Published in: TransformationPolitics as therapy: they want us to be just sick enough not to fight back
On 10 October it is World Mental Health Day. I used to be outgoing, but a descent into crushing depression left me...
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Published in: TransformationSeven everyday things poor people worry about that rich people never do
It isn’t just poor people’s lives which differ from rich people’s lives – it's poor people's thoughts that differ...
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Published in: TransformationIt's ok for you to be fat but not for me: life beyond anorexia's lies
Recovery is about a compassionate way of being in the world, love and community. Content warning: disordered eating,...
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Published in: TransformationThe problem with safer spaces
When you make your trauma a crucial aspect of your identity, it becomes harder to heal from it.
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Published in: TransformationThe dangers of radical self-love
Positive thinking is no basis for social transformation. Better to seek out the truth than live in someone else’s fairy tale.
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Published in: TransformationRacism is not a mental illness
Racism isn’t all in individual heads; it doesn’t just reveal itself in interpersonal relations. History, politics,...
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Published in: TransformationCheer up ‘Bifo’—history hasn’t ended yet
What’s the relationship between capitalism and mental health? A review of Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi’s Heroes: Mass...
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Published in: TransformationDon’t punish yourself to make the world a better place
Why do Westerners go to extremes in following Eastern spiritual paths?
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Published in: TransformationThe corruption of happiness
Anger and injustice need hearing, not treating. Unhappiness can be healthy.
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Published in: TransformationCan money be a force for good?
There is more money in the world than at any other point in human history, so why doesn’t it reach the places that...
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Published in: TransformationHow group therapy taught me to survive oppression
There is no guide to how to discuss your most painful experiences with strangers. Group therapy becomes a microcosm...
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Published in: TransformationIn Lebanon, young people are challenging mental health stereotypes
Tradition, corruption and political negligence continue to stigmatise mental illness, but the new generation is...