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Links I’m Sharing (weekly) – July 12, 2020
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When Your “Person” Has Depression
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How Childhood Trauma Causes Imbalanced Growth
People in mental health crises need help, not handcuffs
What Recovering from Depression has Taught Me
Online Mental Health Treatment Shouldn’t End With the Pandemic
Surviving Your Family by Setting Boundaries
US Air Force ASA Taskforce Head Accused of Indecent Assault
The Head of the US Air Force’s Taskforce designed to try to reduce sexual assault in its ranks was arrested and charged with groping a woman. Since the Air Force has removed him from his post whilst the charges take their course, it’s not as much of a PR disaster as the media thinks. These are…
Link – Leave Jake Lloyd alone: We need compassion for mental illness, not snark
Now Lloyd has been hospitalized for schizophrenia following a ten-month stint in jail, which occurred after he led South Carolina police on a high-speech car chase last June. Predictably, a great deal of the reaction from the Internet has ranged from unsympathetic to downright cruel. “Dude looks like straight sith material. Do not let him…
Oprah Winfrey Child abuser special, online
Unlike a lot of content from the Oprah Winfrey show, you can watch all of this interview in three sections and there’s none of the usual restriction to the United States. We’d highly recommend that you catch all of it as soon as possible and make up your own mind about the format of the…
Something that may interest the Aussies
I received this email earlier, and thought I would go ahead and post it here. Obviously, being in the US, this isn’t something I can take part in myself, but I thought I would pass it along to any of you in Australia who might be interested! Hi. I just want to let all those…
Sharing – A stranger’s words have a ripple effect on one man’s life
We all can do small acts of assistance with friends, family, coworkers, and strangers. When someone does, it confirms our shared humanity, which far too many people are not feeling right now. It shows us that we are worthy of assistance. It also shows us the power of accepting assistance when offered because when someone offers to help us, we can connect with that person in that shared humanity.
We all need more shared humanity. We all need more connection.
