The empathy layer

Mental Wealth

TL;DR • When it comes to mental health, our society approaches it like we did with physical health 50 years ago. We only think about it when something goes wrong. • To the wider public, mental heal…

The empathy paradox

There’s an image of empathy we all know that is beautiful: the fullness of completely understanding someone else, the symbolic walk in shoes that are not one’s own. The knowledge that someone else can share a pain so acute that would otherwise seem unbearably solitary. It’s an image inherent to empathy’s definition, an image many believe in wholeheartedly. Several studies conducted by Stanford researchers alone suggest people are motivated to feel empathy, that empathy is highly associated with social desirability, that it is as beneficial as it is admired.

Opinion | To Make the World Better, Think Small (Published 2016)

It is easy to become numb to suffering. Feeling empathy for individual victims can overcome the numbness.

Mental Health - Platform | The Australian Greens

If you’ve ever struggled to access mental health care, you’re not alone.

Against Empathy

Most people see the benefits of empathy as too obvious to require justification.

Open Source and Mental Health - Redox - Your Next(Gen) OS

The Redox official website

Working remotely, coworking spaces, and mental health - bitquabit

This should be a hard blog post to write–after all, it’s the one where I openly admit I had an emotional breakdown and saw a mental health professional–but it’s actually easy. And it’s easy because it has a good ending: facing long odds and a frustrating situation, I ended up turning everything around and getting a place where I love my job and I’m a happy person again.

Who listens when mental health struggles disrupt daily life?

Ask a Bangladeshi newspaper reader to picture a mental health story. Perhaps a psychiatrist’s quote comes to mind, a helpline number, or a headline about a student’s death.

AI for Proactive Mental Health: A Longitudinal, Multi-Institutional Trial

Young adults today face unprecedented mental health challenges, yet many hesitate to seek support due to barriers such as accessibility, stigma, and time constr

AI for Proactive Mental Health: A Multi-Institutional, Longitudinal, Randomized Controlled Trial

Young adults today face unprecedented mental health challenges, yet many hesitate to seek support due to barriers such as accessibility, stigma, and time constr

What do we know about how to support mental health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic from past infectious disease epidemics? - DEP

Social media and youth mental health: Simple narratives produce biased interpretations.

Your medical provider might be recording your mental health care visits – The Markup

Mental health providers are increasingly using AI technology to record conversations, raising privacy concerns among patients and practitioners.

A revolution in our sense of self | Nick Chater

Psychologists have tried to plumb the depths of human motivation to make sense of our behaviour. But our inner mental world is a fiction, sustained by constant improvisation