This Week’s Links (weekly)
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‘Dancing’ Star to Talk About Child Abuse During Charity Luncheon Thursday
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You Can’t Always See Suicidal Intent | World of Psychology
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Link – How ‘MeToo’ is exposing the scale of sexual abuse
I’m glad this is allowing some to share, and that we are even seeing male victims share their stories. On the other hand, it’s unfortunate that there are some who are only interested in hearing from certain types of victims, even when the original idea was to demonstrate the breadth of the problem! Still, I’m…
Link – Talking to Men About Depression
This is something that we often miss, and prevents us from seeing depression in many people to begin with: “Part of the difficulty was that my friend’s symptoms were more about impatience, irritability, and anger than behaviors we typically associate with depression, such as crying, moping, and an inability to get started with any task…
Link – Disconnection in Depression: Signs and Tips to Reconnect
This is an interesting topic to me. One of the things I keep an eye out for on a regular basis is when I feel disconnected, knowing that it’s a sign that I may be headed for depression if I don’t take the steps that I have learned over the years help me avoid that….
Sharing – We’re Basically All Struggling With Mental Health Right Now
I feel like 2020 has been one of the only times I can remember when admitting you’re struggling with things like anxiety and depression is met with nods of agreement and understanding. That’s an opening for us to continue to talk about mental health issues, of all types, and for people to understand how common it is to need some type of mental health support, whether that be professional, or just supportive friends and family.
On the other hand, I also feel like we all understand that feeling anxious and upset right now is a “normal” reaction to world events, and that having similar issues at another time will be met with skepticism instead of understanding. I hope I’m wrong about that.
In the mean time though, have more conversations around mental health. It will only help all of us feel less alone.
Sharing – Mental Health Over Matter: An Interview with Noah Chenevert
We spend so much time shouting from the rooftops when we find something that works, telling anyone and everyone that they NEED to do the same thing. That impulse is understandable. What we leave out, however, are all the things we tried that didn’t work or when the thing that worked for us 2-3 years ago has stopped working.
It would help if we did that more often to remind people that we are not alone but not all the same.
Sharing – How To Identify Grooming Predatory Behavior & Stop It
That’s our blind spot. We’re so busy looking for creepy, anti-social, stereotypes that we miss the charming abusers right in our midst, and we miss all the signs and hints that our kids might be dropping because we just didn’t stop to consider that adult to be dangerous. We just assumed they were safe, and our kids would somehow know better anyway.
Clearly, that strategy isn’t working.
