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Sharing – Toxic Positivity: Harmful or Helpful
It’s the insistence that everyone around you also is positive all the time, demanding “Good Vibes Only” as the article points out, that worries me. Because people in real pain, social issues that cause real harm, etc. are not good vibes. When a team was winning gold medals, no one wanted to do more than focus on that success, and repeated stories of abuse went ignored. Is our constant need for positivity forcing us to ignore racism, homelessness, abuse, and many other social issues that we need to do more than give passing support to on social media?
Maybe most importantly, are there people in our lives right now hurting, who desperately need our support, who we are ignoring because they bring us down?
Link – Facing a Mental Health Challenge? There’s a Resource for That
This is truth: “Arming yourself with available resources can help you start a productive conversation about mental health or addiction so you can better support someone who may need help” The article has a whole bunch of links and information. Worth a look. Facing a Mental Health Challenge? There’s a Resource for That
Link – Lessons We Missed as Kids: Practicing Mental Health
I’ve written many times about how abused children spend so much of our childhood simply trying to survive, that we miss out learning things that we should have as a kid. NAMI writer Laura Greenstein feels that when it comes to taking care of our mental health, all children are missing out: During childhood, we…
