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Angi Yoder-Maina, Phd 🇰🇪 @angiyo.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

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.

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

“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-...

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BIG READ: Is your mental illness diagnosis helping or hurting you?

Don't read this if you want a simple answer.

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Angi Yoder-Maina, Phd 🇰🇪 @angiyo.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

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.

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

"'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...

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Therapy's 'human touch' is nearing its sell-by date

Human-ness was therapy's biggest defence against AI. It may not be enough anymore.

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

"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...

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I'm a skin toner kinda guy now

While the rest of the world is learning how to write better ChatGPT prompts, I, a 42-year-old-man, am apprenticing in the language of toiletries.

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

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. 😊

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

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

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Where's global mental health headed in 2025 and beyond?

YouTube video by Tanmoy Goswami

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

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...

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The problematic politics of 'healed people heal people'

What does it mean to be a 'healed' individual in an era of licensed bigotry against those the majority considers unhealed?

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Call it what is - the failure of the journalism *industry*, the journalism *business*, of the handful of moneybags who have no f**ks to give whether journalism and journalists live or die. <end>

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

When you say journalism is broken, it becomes easy to shift the entire blame onto journalists. Easy for media owners to fire journalists by the thousands and destroy their livelihoods and their families' futures for little fault of theirs. +

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

... and refuse to care that building a lasting journalism outfit is 100% about people and 0% about cool new tech toys or seductive algorithms. +

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

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... +

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

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

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

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...

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How quitting smoking helped me quit the news

Notes on going cold turkey.

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Who calleth our syckness misinformation and not infaction?

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

📢 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...

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The biggest mental health trends to watch in 2025 with Tanmoy Goswami

From apps & bots to peer support & community mental health

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

But what the f**k do I care whether it's "just anxiety" or a heart attack?! Who gives a damn what recipe you used, if the food still tastes like shit? <end>

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Both the cardiologists converge at the same conclusion: "It's just anxiety." They think that diagnosis will give me relief. +

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

So I go see another cardiologist in a big town close by. Resting heart rate: ~130. "Tachycardia. Right ventricular hypertrophy. Probably abnormal ECG." Echo cardiogram: Nothing. TMT: I run the full 9 minutes without a problem. Heck, I feel athletic. +

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

So I am back at the cardiologist's - the one really good one in my little hill town. ECG shows elevated heart rate. "But don't worry. You're fine." Two weeks later, boom. Something's again squeezing my heart like a stress ball. "Take deep breaths?" Where the f**k from? The fridge?! +

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Then mid-December, for an entire day, my resting heart rate refuses to dip below 100. I'm no longer short of breath. I'm out of it. You can't borrow breath from your neighbours. It's very inconvenient. +

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

April: I get a full-body checkup. All A-okay. "Don't worry. You're fine." So for the next several months, I explain away the chest niggles and the shortness of breath with simple explanations: Gas. Mountain air. Pot belly. +

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

2. I live with mental health issues that are known to have a neat, two-way relationship with heart attack. 3. So many 40-something men are suddenly dying of bad heart. Men much fitter than me. Gone. Just like that. What the f*ck. +

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

1. Heart disease runs in my family. I had a scare as a child and had to take Penidure LA 12 injection every 21 days for 5 yrs. Each time my butt would get a lemon-sized bump. I'd get fever for 3 days. By the time the pain was gone, I'd be terrorised in anticipation of the next butt nuking. +

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

But surely that too has a simple explanation? Haven't we just started living in the mountains? The air is thin. My waist is thick. Is a wee bit of panting so cataclysmic really? 3 problems with this line of argument: +

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

But I know this is a classic symptom of long Covid. What'll you do except live with it? Ok sure, the severity has increased this past year. I can feel my heart throb like a live tennis ball in my throat every time I've to bend down and get up, which is a routine drill in a house with a 6-yr-old. +

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Umm. I've also been getting breathless annoyingly easily. Actually, saying that in the present perfect continuous is misleading, because this started right after I caught Covid, twice. All manner of tests then had revealed nothing. +

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I've been having pesky chest pain for the past several months. Luckily, I'm Bengali. We learn early that pressure in your thoracic cavity = gas. Nothing that some Pudin Hara and some knaacha poshto-bhaat to 'cover up' the acidity can't fix. +

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

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

A black and white selfie of me. I have short hair and salt and pepper beard. I'm wearing a collared t-shirt and big semi-round glasses. My expression is a combination of a frown and a pout.

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

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

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

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

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

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. 🙏🏾

Official portrait of former Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, in a white kurta and blue turban. Image source: Wikipedia.

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

That trip was the first time ever I'd sat on a plane. Not quite the first flying memory I thought I'd make... www.sanitybytanmoy.com/nineteen-yea...

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A nightmare and a miracle turn 19

The story of the boarding pass I refuse to throw away.

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

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...

A fading black and white photo of my boarding pass for Alliance Air flight IC1288 from Port Blair, the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, to Kolkata, the capital of my home state of West Bengal. The flight date was Dec 29, 2004. My seat number was 21F.

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

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...

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Laugh like everyone's watching

Joy as resistance.

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Soumitra সৌমিত্র சௌமித்ரா سومترہ @netshrink.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

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

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

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

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

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

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

STARTE LEARNING MUSICK AFTER 40

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Thanks for the midnight poached egg craving (and hope Maina feels better soon)

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

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/...

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Wellbeing washing: Are workplace mental health apps doing more harm than good? | Welcome to the Jungle

Workers are struggling with mental health. Are employers approaching it the right way?

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

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

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I'll always remember the cracked cup metaphor I'd learned from your piece

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

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...

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

... but for Angie time was as big and round as the sky, and to try to make sense of it was like trying to make sense of music and God and why the ocean was deep. Long ago Angie had known not to try to make sense of these things, the way other people tried to do. <end>

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Tanmoy @toymango.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

She went to the phone and dialed Malcolm's number. Not once, in twenty-two years, had she called him at home, although she had memorized his number long ago. Twenty-two years, she thought, as she listened to the buzz of the ring, would be considered a very long time by most people... +

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