The archive
Discover Monthly
One mental health topic per issue. Everything we published, kept as a record: preserved as written, and not updated. First-person writing from our contributors is in Current Events.
2023
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Anorexia nervosa
What anorexia is, what happens to the brain during it and after weight recovery, and what treatment involves.
2021
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What is mental health?
The Mental Health Awareness Month issue: what mental health means, the range of conditions that exist, and how common they are.
2020
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Generalized anxiety disorder
What GAD is, what happens in an anxious brain, and the writers who describe it best.
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Post-traumatic stress disorder
What PTSD is, what the research says about the brain, and the writers and advocates who describe it.
Date not recorded
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Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Statistics, the four brain regions involved, treatment, books, and advocates.
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Autism spectrum disorder
The GABA research story, the supports that help, and autistic writers in their own words.
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Bipolar disorder
What bipolar disorder is, how treatment works, and the writers and advocates who describe living with it.
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Borderline personality disorder
What BPD is, what black-and-white thinking means from the inside, and the therapies built specifically for it.
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Dissociative identity disorder
What DID actually is, past the film version — and what people who live with it say about it.
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Eating disorders
Definitions, statistics, the brain science, treatment, books, and advocates.
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Major depressive disorder
What depression is, what brain imaging has and has not shown, how treatment helps, and people writing about it.
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder
What OCD actually is, its subtypes, what the brain research shows, and the treatments with evidence behind them.
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Schizophrenia
What schizophrenia is, why its old subtypes are no longer used, and what treatment involves.
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Seasonal affective disorder
The misaligned body clock, the serotonin connection, and the treatments that help.