Not fixed. Still here.
A weekly newsletter about mental health — the living of it, the science behind it, and the experience of carrying on. Written from the inside. Open to all.
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Still Here is a weekly newsletter about mental health — the science of it, the living of it, and what happens in the space between the two.
It's written from the inside. Not by a clinician looking in, but by someone who has navigated this personally and knows that research, however rigorous, doesn't always reach the place where it would actually help. Every week, we try to close that distance.
We publish one piece of science, translated into what it means for a real life. We publish one piece from our community — a reader's honest account of their own experience, their own questions, their own version of carrying on. We hold both to the same standard: honesty, care, and no pretending to have answers we don't have.
"You don't have to be in crisis to be here. You don't have to be recovered. You just have to be still here — which, some weeks, is enough."
Still Here is for people navigating their own mental health. For the people who love and support them. For anyone who has found that the public conversation about mental health is either too clinical to feel true, or too simple to be useful.
The editor's voice. A reflection, a moment, a thing being worked out in real time. Not resolved. Not performed. Just honest.
300–400 words
One piece of research, translated — not summarised. What does this finding mean for how a person actually moves through their day? Clearly labelled by evidence type.
500–700 words
One reader-submitted piece each week. Personal essay, letter, reflection, response. Curated and edited in dialogue, published with full consent and credit choices.
400–800 words
Three to five resources: a study, an approach, a book, a tool. Curated without noise. Always ends with a crisis resource — present, not heavy, every time.
150–200 words
A single reflective prompt for the week. Not a call to action. An invitation to think — and, if it moves you, to write back.
One or two sentences
Still Here publishes one community piece per week. Not as a supplement to the editorial writing — as an equal part of what this publication is.
We're interested in the honest middle ground. The moments between crisis and recovery. The things that don't resolve cleanly. You don't need a conclusion. You need honesty and a point of view.
We read every submission. We respond to every one — accepted or declined.
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We will not smooth over things that aren't smooth. If the evidence complicates something, we'll say so. If we don't know, we'll say that too.
The more precisely something is named, the more people feel seen by it. We resist the generalisation that tries to speak to everyone and reaches no one deeply.
We live in the long, honest middle — not crisis, not cure. We don't promise recovery. We offer company for the journey.
Neither is complete without the other. When they're in tension, we name it rather than choosing a side.
How we label what we know
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