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Brandon Marshall Reaches Out to Depression Sufferer
Cross-posted from my Sports Blog. I was looking at some of my online news sources for thing to share on my various sites when I came across an article written by a student interning as a sportswriter, Megan Armstrong, taking her battle with depression public. The part of the article that got my attention as…
Link – Youth basketball coach preyed on single-parent families to abuse, exploit children, prosecutors say
This wasn’t a case of “stranger danger”. “He was so sinister that he also conducted a scheme that would allow him to gain access to children who were growing up in single-parent homes, to position himself as a person to be helpful to a single mom,” This was a case of grooming an entire family….
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Sheldon Kennedy’s struggle tags: CA ChildAbuse Sports NHL 3 Pieces Of Advice For The Loved Ones Of A Depressive tags: CA Depression Why So Many Men Are Thanking An Irish Guy For Revealing A Secret They’re Too Afraid To Admit tags: CA Depression Groomed to be abused tags: CA ChildAbuse “Post-Traumatic Growth” — Three Words…
Sharing – Youth mental health: Mindfulness training isn’t the answer, UK study finds
What we see here is what we see for a lot of mental health solutions, it works for some, and doesn’t work for others. Mental health is complicated. As the article points out, if the school environment is hurting student mental health or they are living in an environment at home that does the same, mindfulness isn’t going to change that and isn’t likely to have much of an overall impact even if they engage.
It’s complicated. The solutions are going to be complicated as well. I’d like some simple mindfulness training to be “the answer” for everyone too, but it just isn’t.
On the other hand, if it helps you, keep doing it.
Link – Researcher: Mental health issues often progress after brain injury
This is important research, not just to help us understand what happens during relatively mild brain injuries, but to eventually find better ways to treat the mental health issues when it’s being caused by some sort of physical injury to the brain and not responding to typical treatments like talk therapy, etc. ““The study has…
