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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…

3 min readJan 6, 2021

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

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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…

4 min readJun 11, 2020

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

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Harriet Brown

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…

4 min readJan 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

5 min readNov 21, 2019

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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…

4 min readJun 2, 2019

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Love and Anorexia

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Harriet Brown

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…

6 min readMay 12, 2019

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

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Harriet Brown

An Open Letter to Republicans

Dear Republicans,

3 min readJul 20, 2016

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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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