Not a fan. White Western males have historically constituted a dominant group in the development of DSM classifications, leading to concerns about potential gender and cultural bias.

 Significant financial ties between DSM panel members and the pharmaceutical industry have been documented.

“There are people who are DSM fans and some who kind of hate it. So we have made it a point to talk to people and ask how we can fix it.” - Chair, Future DSM Strategic Committee, as we await a new DSM Time to probe psychiatry's most contested idea: diagnosis. www.sanitybytanmoy.com/big-read-is-...

So interesting! This aligns with my new research focus on AI as amplifier, not replacement. I'm in the "both/and" camp, not either/or. The MH field could use this moment to address past shortcomings, but many are digging in their heels instead of embracing the opportunity.

"'Therapy' no longer signifies 'one-to-one interaction with my therapist'. It means 'a session of nervous system calming exercises guided by a virtual mental health coach coded in Python and posted on Tik Tok by a faceless influencer." www.sanitybytanmoy.com/therapys-hum...

"Niacinamide", "hyaluronic acid", "sulphate-free", "mild exfoliant". While you're learning how to write better ChatGPT prompts, I, a 42-year-old-man, am apprenticing in the language of toiletries. Move over, serotonin. I'm a skin toner kinda guy now. www.sanitybytanmoy.com/from-seroton...

#Depression is NOTHING like diabetes.

I read 600+ articles and did hundreds of hours of research to bring you 44 slides on the biggest themes to watch in global #mentalhealth. Pretty sure nothing like this exists anywhere in this part of the world (not at this price anyway). Get your copy: topmate.io/tanmoy_goswa... You're welcome. 😊

A deep dive into what I believe will be the defining themes in global mental health this year. I spent hundreds of hours researching so you don't have to. Watch this hourlong video at ease (because not everything can be reduced to a hot take) and write to me with your thoughts. youtu.be/Mc19KcjTAT8

What happens when "hurt people hurt people" legitimises bigotry against people hurt by that very same bigotry? This question has very real implications as we enter a new era of licensed bigotry against anyone the majority labels unhealed, impure, broken. www.sanitybytanmoy.com/healed-peopl...

Stop saying #journalism is broken. It's the journalism *industry* that's broken. The ills of journalism are 100% created by media owners. They failed to build a sustainable business model, remain obsessed with fads and shortcuts, lust after power at the cost of principles... +

Do 'bigots' deserve therapy? Where does therapy end and activism begin? How would you make a patient who doesn't align with your politics feel safe? Is your goal to help your patient or reform them? - Questions that need to be urgently included in psychology syllabi in the age of social media

I was a news junkie until not so long ago. Whether I was going for a walk or cooking or taking my morning dump – - I needed news streaming through my earphones to function. It took me all the muscle memory of quitting smoking to free myself. www.sanitybytanmoy.com/how-quitting...

Who calleth our syckness misinformation and not infaction?

📢 I've done hundreds of hours of research, read dozens of articles, and spoken to a tonne of people so you don't have to. Join me and a small group on Jan 25 to explore the biggest themes that'll shape the mental health sector in 2025. Sign up below: topmate.io/tanmoy_goswa...

Resting heart rate: ~130. "Tachycardia. Right ventricular hypertrophy. Probably abnormal ECG." +

This new year, may you learn to differentiate a panic attack from a heart attack.

Here's a new year resolution for you: Don't make fun of people with health anxiety.

As a small-town boy whose parents survived hunger and lived lives of hard labour, I owe so much of my ability (audacity) to dream freely to Dr Singh's vision. This loss will hit differently if you are a 80s' or 90s' kid who remembers how the world was before 91. Thank you, Sir. Rest in peace. 🙏🏾

20 years ago today, my family survived the #IndianOcean #Tsunami that killed at least 250,000 people. Every year, I remember the kind strangers of the #Andamans who helped us come back alive instead of in body bags. 20 years on, I'm still hanging on to the boarding pass of our rescue flight...

Joy is a sage with a creased forehead and a wrinkled smile. Happiness is the biker in the bomber jacket. Unlike happiness, joy isn't about the individual. It is a public good. Embracing joy in a joyless world is an act of resistance. www.sanitybytanmoy.com/laugh-like-e...

Young ppl: Outlive Chat is a safe space to find peer support & tools to help manage difficult feelings & thoughts of ending your life. It has many tools that can help you manage your thoughts & feelings in difficult moments. It's free! Pl RT & share chat.outlive.in/landing-page

Writing personalised "pleeeeease come back" emails to 300 lapsed newsletter subscribers. Then obsessively refreshing inbox every 5 seconds. How's your Christmas week going?

I started my mental health newsletter Sanity in Dec 2020. As a solo writer from the global south, it's a miracle that I've survived 4 years :,) The Sanity community, spanning 50+ countries, is pure magic. Nothing like it exists anywhere else. Join us and see for yourself: www.sanitybytanmoy.com

STARTE LEARNING MUSICK AFTER 40

Shiny new digital mental health tools/app/chatbots - many making misleading and unsubstantiated claims and preying on sensitive personal data of users - are helping employers perpetrate a massive con job on employees battered by blood-sucking management. www.welcometothejungle.com/en/articles/...

But what happeneth when thy beautyful wordes are stolen by AI companyes to train their modeles?

Relate?

Economic insecurity is associated with increased painkiller consumption and produces actual physical pain and reduces pain tolerance, with the absence of control providing one explanation. - Jeffrey Pfeffer, 'Dying for a Paycheck' Thinking of my parents' lifelong pains in a whole new light now...

"Thy tyme ys unquantifiable" reminded me of this passage from Elizabeth Strout's 'Olive Kitterdige'. Welle sayde, olde bard. Thy words doth tuggeth at my heartstrings.

Who's interested in a half-day unconference - tentatively titled Poop Talk - illuminating the gut-mental health connection and celebrating the best scatological literature and art out there?

Why are YouTube viewers obsessed with their favourite YouTubers 'saying their name' during live streams? www.sanitybytanmoy.com/youtube-supe...

Urgently looking to speak to folks whose employers offer access to a mental health app. I'm sussing out what employees think of this 'benefit'. It's an important piece, I'm on a *tight* deadline, and will guarantee anonymity. Pls DM if this fits you or point me to anyone who can speak on this.🙏🏾

They also neede to paye experts they recruiete from global southe countryes for diversitye and inclusion before sayd experts doth growe olde and die

'A Man Called Ove', closely followed by 'Bird by Bird'

"I like the world a little more than I did before this call. Thank you Tanmoy! 🤍" I just conducted a live session on the hard lessons I've learned surviving 4 years as a solo indie creator. This is a feedback note from a participant. I don't think any compliment can top this. My heart is full. 🥹

Do you add anxiety expenses to your travel budget? Chronic anxiety makes you bleed money just so you can in be control of at least a few things in your life. Here's how. 1/n +

I make a newsletter on international disability news and I need your help. The two biggest challenges for a project like this are visibility and financing. Please share, to help others find it. And if you're comfortable, it runs on pay-what-you-can. www.disabilitydebrief.org/debrief/open...

@thementalelf.bsky.social Hello there Good Elf :)

📢 I've created a free workbook on curiosity for writers. What does curiosity mean to you? How does it shape your creative choices? How would your relationship with curiosity change if you were to absorb its links with colonialism, power, and in/justice? Free download: topmate.io/tanmoy_goswa...

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees Yf we wante a bettir future Teach artes & humanityes

You're also a real writer if: - Publishers make you wait years for your payment, causing you to wonder if you really wrote that piece or made it all up in your head - Carpal tunnel curtails your hand movements, and you choose to prioritise holding your heavy phone to watch Netflix over writing

OUP is late. Desis had dimaag ki dahi long before brain rot became a thing. 😒

The vast patches in therapy when nothing seems to happen, session after session, when there's no breakthrough, no movement... ... tolerate and value those patches because something critical is going on here. Insight is fermenting in your head. May you soon smell its heady waft.

2 things everyone who goes from a job to life as a solo creator tears their hair about: 1. Now that your salary doesn't magically ka-ching in your account on the 31st, without your having to ask anyone, you must-aargh!-personally ask people to pay you. 2. "I'm just not ready." Antidote:

Non-US/-European solo creator trying to protect paying subscribers from being eaten up by a bad economy, broken payment infrastructure that doesn't care about them, lack of paying culture, whimsical regulations, loneliness, impostor syndrome, faltering motivation,and the terror of Elon Musk.

I have a starter pack of folks to follow in the newsletter world. If you identify as one or know someone here that should be in the pack, hit me up and I'll add you/them in. go.bsky.app/NHR2GqQ

"Went to the Arctic Circle despite massive anxiety." "Stood up to a bully boss." "Escaped a dictatorship, a marriage, and an anxiety disorder." "Navigated a hypomanic episode without fully losing myself." - my readers' wins in 2024. What an honour it is for me to write for you beautiful people. ❤️🥹

@joshuajfriedman.com Hi Joshua, thanks for curating non-Substack newsletters. I run sanitybytanmoy.com on Ghost and would love to be added. Thanks again!

Meet Lorraine. Lorraine has supported my mental health newsletter Sanitybytanmoy.com since I started it amid the pandemic. 4 years on, Lorraine is a beloved friend who regales me with photos of her freshly baked bread. She's also a star before the camera, as you'll see. youtu.be/hrVUlbvc1jM

Most solo global south newsletters die swift lonely deaths coz the odds are crushing. All the tools are built for US/EUR creators. We have no role models. There's no culture of paying for newsletters. That my little newsletter has survived 4 years, thanks to readers in 50+ countries, is just🤯.