Interesting post today about how a Vitamin D deficiency can cause not just physical problems, but can have a real factor in mental health as well.
Since there’s no better source of Vitamin D than the sun, take some time to go get a little. It may not solve all of your mental health issues, but it will certainly be more useful than not having enough!
Sam and Chris Gould: Twins’ suicides lead to victim policing change
Polly’s story: The long-lasting and corrosive impact of child sexual abuse
Struggling Activist And Feeling Helpless
– Before you can do more to help others, you need to also take care of your own mental health.
The science behind panic attacks — and what can you do to manage them
“Instagram therapy” and how women use social media for mental health support, solidarity
Prison and mental illness: the unmet needs associated with reincarceration
Unlike a lot of content from the Oprah Winfrey show, you can watch all of this interview in three sections and there’s none of the usual restriction to the United States. We’d highly recommend that you catch all of it as soon as possible and make up your own mind about the format of the…
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.
Despite childhood trauma’s disadvantages, kids can recover after childhood trauma and live perfectly healthy, successful lives. They need help. They need a support system and people there to help them navigate it, but childhood trauma is not, as we often hear a life sentence.
I wish we would talk about this more. Survivors could use the reminder.
These are, indeed, sobering statistics coming out of the UK: “The latest research indicates that one in eight children now has a diagnosable mental health disorder — up from one in 10 in 2004. But these are just the reported cases. Suicide is the biggest killer of men under the age of 45. Today, that…
Linking in with my review of Robbie Garner’s Book Nobody Came, The Guardian has published a feature in its Weekend magazine section two years on from the start of the enquiry and thus updating anything you might have read in the Daily Mail’s story trail from the same post. You can view it below; Jersey…
