Public health has long been considered a global public good (GPG); however, the specific case of mental health has remained fairly neglected, which calls for its recognition as a GPG. This entails understanding how information about mental health is produced and disseminated, which summons the concept of mental health literacy, i.e., the promotion of knowledge about mental disorders and treatments, thus preventing negative attitudes toward mental illness. General stigma against mental disorders is at the core of Coisas de loucos: o que eles deixaram no manicómio (2020), a collection of texts by journalist Catarina Gomes that reassemble the lives of eight former patients at “Miguel Bombarda,” a psychiatric hospital in Lisbon. This chapter looks at Coisas de loucos to illustrate how literary journalism, in its focus on the ordinary and its credibility granted by narrative detail and immersion, may promote mental health literacy by increasing the readers’ knowledge of mental illness while also encouraging ethical awareness. Consequently, these texts may have the potential to change individual attitudes toward mental illness and thus contribute to a collective appreciation of mental health as a GPG.