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Harriet Brown

We’re All Struggling with Depression and Anxiety — But Young People Have It Worst

Back in 1953, Brock Chisholm, a psychiatrist and first Director-General of the World Health Organization, commented, “Without mental…

Jan 6, 2021

We’re All Struggling with Depression and Anxiety — But Young People Have It Worst

Jan 6, 2021

What I learned about systemic racism at the doctor’s office

If you’ve never personally experienced institutional discrimination — racism, sexism, homophobia — there’s no way you can understand it…

Jun 11, 2020

What I learned about systemic racism at the doctor’s office

Jun 11, 2020

6 Things Eating Disorders Treatment Often Gets Wrong

Anorexia nervosa is one of the most pernicious diseases around. People who develop it are sick, on average, for four to seven years. A…

Jan 20, 2020

6 Things Eating Disorders Treatment Often Gets Wrong

Jan 20, 2020

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How to Talk to a Relative You’re Estranged From

Each interaction is part of a bigger process of acceptance

Nov 21, 2019

How to Talk to a Relative You’re Estranged From

Nov 21, 2019

Love and Anorexia

It began with an email, one that dropped into my inbox from someone I did not know. Over the years of our correspondence her email names…

Jun 2, 2019

Love and Anorexia

Jun 2, 2019

I Was Estranged from My Mother. It Was Hard to Say Good-Bye to My Own Daughter.

I’d been dreading this moment for 27 years, since the day my older daughter was born. As I stood holding her at the hospital window that…

May 12, 2019

I Was Estranged from My Mother. It Was Hard to Say Good-Bye to My Own Daughter.

May 12, 2019

An Open Letter to Republicans

Dear Republicans,

Jul 20, 2016

Jul 20, 2016

Harriet Brown

Harriet Brown

Science writer and storyteller. I wrote Shadow Daughter: A Memoir of Estrangement, Body of Truth, and Brave Girl Eating. I teach Magazineland @NewhouseSU.

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