Mental Illness

Michelle Kekana and Marion Scher challenge the narrative, highlighting mental health as a universal human experience

This piece by Mia Arderne from the book ‘Touch: Sex, Sexuality and Sensuality’ ‘puts class squarely in the middle of what is a global mental health crisis’

While people are taking mental health more seriously, the commodification of workers can turn a job into a toxic space that depletes more than it uplifts

Full to the point of rupture, Touch still leaves the reader yearning for more

The Life Esidimeni tragedy is a stark illustration of how people’s socioeconomic standing affects the mental health services they are able to access

There are few programmes that deal with mental illness, so the cycle can continue for generations

A new study has shown that similarities between human brains and those of mice can make them useful for studying mental illness, something previously believed impossible

Children are often unable to verbalise their feelings of anxiety or depression, instead presenting with physical symptoms or odd behaviour. Diagnosis and treatment is crucial to…

The case of Roxanne Joseph lays bare society’s inconsistencies about who deserves our empathy

We should give people second chances. But we need to reflect on whether a black or brown person would survive a fake cancer scandal

A young reporter lied about having cancer. Did her well-connected father cross the line protecting her? And does it endanger trust in journalism?

Mentally ill men and women are easy targets for rapists, who are often known to them, and they don’t always report such incidents through fear

The WHO has recategorised transgenderism from being a ‘mental disorder’ to being a condition relating to ‘sexual health’

That nagging fear may cause you to fall apart, but it may also serve as a call to action

Mental illness, feminism and racism are explored in a new collection of short stories by Rofhiwa Maneta