It’s Not Just You
- Part I: Aware & Unhappy
- Part II: Doctors & Diagnosis
- Part III: People & Politics
- Part IV: Society & the Psyche
It’s Not Just You America’s mental health crisis isn’t just about our unhappiness as individuals. It’s about the world we live in: our economy, our culture, our medical establishment. Americans have long treated mental health as a personal matter. But until we realize that society shapes our mental health and how we treat it, we won’t be able to feel better.
Your Mind and
What’s Around It The psychological effects of being a person in the world.
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A
When Facebook Broke
My Brain -
B
Teenagers Are
Telling
Us
That Something
Is Wrong
With America -
C
The Troubled
Teen
Industry Doesn’t Want
You to See This -
D
Why Do People Think
Going to Therapy Makes
You a Good Person?
- Photographs by Bobby Doherty for The New York Times
It’s Not Just You America’s mental health crisis isn’t just about our unhappiness as individuals. It’s about the world we live in: our economy, our culture, our medical establishment. Americans have long treated mental health as a personal matter. But until we realize that society shapes our mental health and how we treat it, we won’t be able to feel better.
Power, Politics and Feelings
From the courtroom to the waiting room, it’s impossible to take politics out of mental health.
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A
‘How Are You, Really?’
This Is Therapy in
Small-Town Colorado. -
B
What a Conservative
Therapist Thinks
About Politics
and
Mental Health -
C
The Deadly Collision
of Racism and
Mental Illness -
D
There’s a Solution
to Our Mental Health
Crisis, and It
Already Exists
- Photographs by Bobby Doherty for The New York Times
It’s Not Just You America’s mental health crisis isn’t just about our unhappiness as individuals. It’s about the world we live in: our economy, our culture, our medical establishment. Americans have long treated mental health as a personal matter. But until we realize that society shapes our mental health and how we treat it, we won’t be able to feel better.
Inside and Outside the
Doctor’s Office Therapists and psychiatrists decide what your care looks like. What shapes those decisions?
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A
My Therapist,
the Robot -
B
Therapy for
People Who Can’t
Go to Therapy -
C
The Forgotten
Lessons of the
Recovered Memory Movement -
D
How Is Depression
Treated? Let
Me Show You
- Photographs by Bobby Doherty for The New York Times
It’s Not Just You America’s mental health crisis isn’t just about our unhappiness as individuals. It’s about the world we live in: our economy, our culture, our medical establishment. Americans have long treated mental health as a personal matter. But until we realize that society shapes our mental health and how we treat it, we won’t be able to feel better.
We Are Aware and Unhappy Conversations about mental health are everywhere. So why do we still feel so bad?
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A
Mental Health
Is Political -
B
How Do We
Turn Symptoms Into Words? -
C
Who Is Going
to Therapy
in America? -
D
We Have
Reached Peak ‘Mental Health’
- Photographs by Bobby Doherty for The New York Times