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Child Sexual Abuse and Incest – 8 Myths and The Facts Mental Health Should Matter as Much as Physical Health How I Cope with My Partner’s Mental Illness Suicide Contagion Or “Copycat Suicides” Are A Public Health Issue, & Approaching The Issue With Nuance Is Important Podcast: How to Reduce the Stress of Social Media…
Sharing – Anhedonia: New study provides insight into an overlooked but very common symptom of depression
That’s depression. That empty feeling that nothing matters and the inability to feel anything because it doesn’t matter. But, it’s hard to express that. It’s difficult to come up with a header image that displays that when we talk about depression. I’ve said before, our default image to use when talking about depression is the young, white woman lying or sitting looking sad.
Link – 8 Common Myths About Children, Teenagers And Mental Health Debunked
I can’t help but get frustrated when this is still the most popular myth we have to start articles like this with – “Myth: Mental health treatment is a sign of weakness. My kids will get over it.” There’s more where that came from. Please, if you don’t understand mental health issues among kids, go…
Sharing – Why a child might not disclose abuse (and how to word a question in a way that may promote disclosure)
At least we can consider the possibility that we are actually doing the thing the abuser claimed would happen if the child ever told, a big, scary deal that kids would do anything to avoid, including remain silent about abuse.
