About
Made for the people the headlines forget.
Mental Hum began out of necessity. When we began discussing the unique mental health conditions that span our communities and, indeed, society, we came to the conclusion that we deserve a safe space to explore mental health topics without bias, and without agenda.
Mental health news is everywhere. Most of it is alarmist or difficult to decipher. We wanted something else. Something to spare you from the maze. A single, careful page, edited like a Sunday paper, that respects both the reader and the subject.
We cover policy, treatment, research, and the lived texture of mental health around the world. We keep a comprehensive library of plain-language resources. And we publish urgent crisis information on the masthead because life is unpredictable.
A note on what we publish: Mental Hum is a reading list, not a publisher. Every news story and every resource entry links out to the original outlet, which varies between peer-reviewed journals, health agencies, major news organizations, or accredited non-profits. Our editorial work is the selection, the framing, the newsletter, and the words beyond the headlines. The reporting belongs to the people who did it.
We don’t sell newsletter data. We don’t paywall a single resource. Mental Hum is a mental health frequency, meant for the people the headlines forget.
Who runs this
Dean Shaban
Founder and editor, Mental Hum
What you see on Mental Hum is all created, designed, and operated by me. I was on the founding team of Amazon’s Health AI organization, worked as a health editor at WebMD and GoodRx, and hold a degree in psychology from Princeton University.
That background shapes the rules here: no alarmism, no politics, no stigma, and no claim that runs further than the evidence behind it. Every news item carries one line of original editorial perspective, and every item links back to the people who did the reporting.
With gratitude,
Dean