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On a spring evening this May, dozens of people filed into the seventy-two-year-old First Baptist Church on Brooklyn’s Eastern Parkway. They were there to hear from New York City’s mayoral candidates about their solutions to one of the city’s most pressing issues: mental illness, which in the public imagination is often conflated with street homelessness. In reality, mental illness isn’t always as public as a person talking to themselves on a Manhattan-bound C train, but pressure to keep it that way, hiding symptoms from family, friends and colleagues, can add to distress. In 2021, according to the most recent public health data, 1,660 New Yorkers died by suicide, and an estimated 41,500 New Yorkers attempted it.

The Baffler     Jun 05, 2025