Natasha and Luca from That Vegan Couple run regular podcasts on becoming vegan, staying vegan and creating a light and minimalist lifestyle. I was honoured to be interviewed by them on the notion of Vystopia and how to create a language to explain the experience to others as well as navigate through it.
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Originally published on the veganindepent.com (no longer running) You are not alone: mental health in vegans and animal activists Mental anguish is common among vegans and animal rights activists, but there is help out there. Like many vegans and animal activists, Sydneysider Lyndsay Doyle has experienced intense mental suffering relating to her veganism. Fighting pain from…
When you become a vegan, you run a high chance of developing a mental illness. This might seem extreme and enough to make non-vegans avoid talking about the subject, so let me clarify what I mean. Firstly, someone who adopts a plant-based diet and calls themselves a vegan is unlikely to suffer in the same…
Why is veganism increasing as a compassionate philosophy, with animal social justice being at its core? Drawing on key emotional experiences of vegans, survey data collected in 2018 and observational data from her private psychology practice, Clare Mann created the term Vystopia: The Anguish of Being Vegan in a Non Vegan World In this article…
How is it possible after sharing facts about something that has direct significance to a person, they don’t change their behaviour? Despite showing them how their choices are making them unhealthy or unhappy, they still ignore the facts or refuse to look further. We still see people smoking despite years of advice that it’s not…
In this interview with the animal rights campaign group ANDA in Brazil, Clare Mann shares her work in animal social justice
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