This Week’s Links (weekly)
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Be aware of child abuse: Reports are down because of pandemic isolation How the U.S. Made it a Crime to Have Mental Illness Why do we consider vulnerability a weakness? Beyond the language of denial: Men talk mental health in Ghana Best Support is to Validate Concerns of Stressed-Out Friends Living With Chronic Illness, Pain,…
Sharing – We tell suicidal people to go to therapy. So why are therapists rarely trained in suicide?
I have to admit, I did not know this. “A 2012 paper by the American Association of Suicidology cites decades of studies that underscore the training gap, and experts say not much has changed in the last several years. It found about half of psychology students receive formal classroom training on suicide during their graduate education. Only…
Sharing – Abuse Survivors and Our Bodies: Mistaking Correlation with Causation
The article below is an important one. Sexual abuse survivors for sure, and survivors of other types of abuse as well, mistakenly assume that there is something about us, and about our bodies, that led to the abuse. It’s not true.
Link – Two-thirds of children referred for mental healthcare in England not treated
Sadly, this is probably about the same in other countries as well. “Data from 32 NHS Trusts in England showed about 60% of under-18s who are referred to child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) by their GP are not receiving treatment, according to figures obtained by Spurgeons children’s charity.” The reason I believe it’s…
Sharing – National Well-Being Before and During the Pandemic
When I compare my personal experience to the overall statistics, again I can see where it is also kind of all over the place, because it’s individual. In some ways, I’m doing pretty well, in others, not so much. None of us are exactly the same, or living with the same circumstances. So as global as this pandemic is, the effects have been incredibly diverse. That person you are working with on a Zoom call, the medical professional, the person taking your to-go order, that teacher your kid is learning from, or even those kids and their parents are all dealing with any multitude of impacts that we know nothing about, and probably never will. The one thing we do know, is that they are being impacted.Â
We would do well, as a society to take advantage of this very obvious opportunity to learn that we are all impacted in different way by events, and to take the time to listen to how someone who isn’t like us, is impacted. This is a great time to understand the large scale of the world and all of the different experiences within it. Maybe we could at least settle for understanding that our own individual situations, are not representative of everyone. Not even close, in fact.Â
