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Sharing – Allowing Survivors of Suicide Loss to Be Honest
As Brandy shares, processing grief can sometimes mean being angry, or feeling things about the death of a loved one that don’t always jive with how we’d want suicide reported, but these are not spokespeople, advocates, or reporters, they are people dealing with their own pain.
Maybe, if we want people to speak their truth, we need to give them the room to express it the way they feel it, not silence them in the interest of not hearing terms we don’t love.
Link – How to Hold on to Healing in Times of Stress
We’ve all seen this, and we’ve asked the same questions: Life throws you a curveball in the form of a breakup, an illness, or a change in your work situation. Suddenly, the behaviors, thoughts, and feelings you thought you had left behind come rushing back. You begin to doubt your self-improvement. Was your healing just…
Sharing – Other People Don’t Think You’re a Mess
The key is to have some compassion for yourself, similar to the compassion you might have for someone else in a vulnerable situation. When you can do that, suddenly what the other person does isn’t as important, you’ve given yourself grace, and acceptance.
As childhood abuse survivors, of course, this is tricky. Self-compassion is not generally one of our strengths. How could it be? All our lives we’ve been told that bad things happen either to bad people, or for a reason, and we’ve had something horrible happen to us, so we must be broken in some way to have had that experience. Didn’t we all think that way at one point or another? How could we not?
Sharing – Language That Deepens Trauma Instead of Healing It
The amount of courage and effort it took to tell you deserves more than a dismissive comment.
Link – Mental illness crisis: Overhaul in the works
At least Oregon is acknowledging the problem and working to find ways to change it. “Oregon’s pattern of cycling homeless mentally ill people through county jails and the state psychiatric hospital is expensive and ineffective. “ Not everything in the article is going to necessarily be adopted, or work if it is, but I’m glad…
