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Suicide Survivor Shares Story and Advice For Helping Others The 3 Pillars of Mental Health Lessons on Compassion: Why It’s Good for Us and How We Can Do More of It Point of View: ‘I am still standing’: How soccer helped a sexual assault survivor on his healing journey Sexual abuse, your ignorance is their power…
Link – How many people believe in the idealized lives they see online?
To my way of thinking, the answer to that question is way too many. The article below lays out some interesting ways of looking at social media, why things are the way they are, and maybe some different ways we should be thinking about it that might help it have less of a negative influence…
Shared Links (weekly) June 26, 2022
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3 people with serious mental illness share their pandemic journeys
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Why So Many Long COVID Patients Are Having Suicidal Thoughts
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Why Voices of Lived Experience are Vital to Mental Health Professionals
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7 Children’s Books That Explain Tragedies, News, and Difficult Topics
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Racial disparities in mental health care: An explainer and research roundup
Link – Positive Experiences with Mental Illness in the Workplace
While it is great that people are having positive experiences in the workplace when it comes to mental illness, these are still small numbers. In the same study, 27% of respondents said they were treated dismissively or told their illness wasnāt serious or real. Almost 25% said they were demoted or denied opportunities after disclosing…
Reading – 6 Reasons To Reveal Childhood Sexual Abuse
The choice to share your story or not, and who to share it with, is an intensely personal one. This article points out some of the benefits of doing it, but doesn’t really address the reasons why a survivor might not share. What do you think? What made you decide to share, or not share?…
