Similar Posts
Child Abuse Prevention Month in the Age of Pandemic
It’s hard. Normally in April we’d be sharing all the ways teachers, neighbors, and others can help prevent child abuse, reporting when kids show up to school with unexplained injuries, or kids we suspect are being abused at home or by family contacts. But now, we don’t really see those kids at all, so it’s…
Link – How do I tell someone I have a problem?
While this article is written for people trying to get help with drug or alcohol problems, I found the basics of this to be very familiar to what you go through when trying to tell someone about depression, or past child abuse, or any situation where you need help. I especially like that it’s not…
Sharing – Mental Health Over Matter: An Interview with Noah Chenevert
We spend so much time shouting from the rooftops when we find something that works, telling anyone and everyone that they NEED to do the same thing. That impulse is understandable. What we leave out, however, are all the things we tried that didn’t work or when the thing that worked for us 2-3 years ago has stopped working.
It would help if we did that more often to remind people that we are not alone but not all the same.
Link – 14 Key Signs of Depression in Men
Why do we often miss depression in men, and in teenage boys? This might have something to do with it: Part of the difficulty was that my friend’s symptoms were more about impatience, irritability, and anger than the behaviors we typically associate with depression, such as crying, moping, and an inability to get started with…