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Link – Suicide Survivors and How They Coped – Suicide Prevention and Help
This is really interesting. We should spend some time looking at the people who didn’t go through with it, and why. But some stories about suicide are hopeful: For every person who dies by suicide each year, another 280 people think seriously about suicide but do not kill themselves, according to data from the CDC…
Sharing – The Disguises of Depression
Not everyone is going to mope around and talk about feeling sad. Some people, maybe even people in your own life, are going to just be kind of irritable, maybe even mean.
You might ordinarily call this sort of behavior “acting out”, but it could be so much more than that.
Link – PODCAST: Mental Illness: To Disclose or Not to Disclose?
I’ve linked to a number of recent articles about whether it’s appropriate to disclose a mental health struggle or not, and to whom. This podcast episode is a frank discussion about the plusses and real-life consequences of those decisions. If you’re thinking about “going public”, you owe it to yourself to consider the things these…
Link – Childhood Trauma Exposure Is All Too Common
This is important. This is also something I’ve been spending a lot of time talking to people about, and thinking about. “A long-term study of 1,420 people finds that childhood trauma is more commonplace than is often assumed, and that its effects upon the transition to adulthood and adult functioning are not only confined to…
Sharing – Love thy neighbor, improve your mental health, says BYU study
I’ve seen numerous comments like this from social scientists this year, and I have to say, there’s definitely something to it.
““I get tons of people asking me what we can do during the pandemic to try to stay connected and stave off loneliness,” said BYU psychology professor Julianne Holt-Lunstad, who co-led the project. “Conducting this experiment during pandemic conditions—which we didn’t originally plan—we found that people can experience significant reductions in loneliness even in tough times just by doing things that are easy, free and require no training to help the people around them.””
