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Link – How mental health alters decision making
“Young kids make decisions based on a set of rules they construct about the world around them – don’t draw on the walls, don’t spit your food, do eat your vegetables. As teenagers, we stop making decisions based on constructed rules and start independently weighing the risks and rewards of different options, but with a…
Link – We Need to Support Mental Illness, Even When It’s Not Cute
“I completely get it. It’s easy to say you accept mental health issues until you actually see it. Sometimes, it’s messy. Sometimes, it involves F-bombs. It’s easy to look at her and just think she’s “one of those bad kids.” But she only swears when she’s really feeling bad and is starting to lose control. I…
Link – How Mental Illnesses Affects Everyone Differently
I have often said that just because something worked for one person in overcoming a mental health issue, or healing from abuse, doesn’t mean it will work for you. I love reading about what has helped others because it shows that there is hope, not because I expect things they did to always work for…
Link – When the abuser is a child, too
There is a lot to digest in this article, so I’m not going to pull out a quote, instead I’m going to simply suggest you go read the entire thing. As you do though, I think there are two important points, controversial as they may seem. Kids who are sexually inappropriate with other kids are…
Link – Colleges Get Proactive in Addressing Depression on Campus
First, good for colleges to recognize the problem and fund research into the best ways to help these young people get the help they need. With that said, I wonder about these paragraphs: “In the past, many of the students on campuses today “would have been weeded out before they got to college,” Dr. Moneta…
