Too Human: An Investigation of the Language We Use to Talk About Mental Health and Illness [Hogg.UTexas.edu]

Samantha Sangenito 5/20/1612:00 PM

Since I came on board as communications manager at the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, two and half years ago, I’ve been struggling to reconcile the language the foundation and its allies use to talk about mental health with my own notions about how we should be talking.

I do my best thinking through writing, so in order to work through some of these tensions and questions, I wrote a long essay, which I ended up calling “Too Human.”

[For more of this story, written by Daniel Oppenheimer, go to http://hogg.utexas.edu/too-hum...l-health-and-illness]

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