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Sharing – Mental Health Checkups and a Continuum of Intervention
I’ve written over the last few months about my diagnosis of diabetes and the medical care I’ve gotten. I appreciate the fact that my treatment plan included providers asking about my mental health. This kind of thing can be overwhelming, and in that kind of situation, it never hurts to ask and check on someone’s mental health. I don’t think everyone gets that same level of concern, and I’m not sure that, outside of a life-changing diagnosis, anyone would have been checking on my mental health in the same way.
P Luna Foundation Looking for Virtual Volunteers
The organization behind help4guys.org and the Male Abuse Awareness Week are looking for volunteers. You can learn more about the virtual opportunities from this video or check out the posting over at http://www.idealist.org/view/volop/DttJWJsmhxNp/ For the record, I’m one of the volunteers, running the Male Abuse Awareness Week Google Plus page, at least for the moment….
Sharing – COVID-19 stress is making America increasingly irritable. But what is all this rage hiding?
I don’t know anyone that isn’t more irritable now than they were a year ago, but do we know why? And what do we do about it? This seems like a fairly accurate picture of our current situation: “In fact, neuroscience tells us is that irritability and anger aren’t in our conscious control. Think of…
Link – Depressed People Cannot Imagine This Special Thing
This is an interesting way of looking at depression, and might also explain why people who have never had depression, and those who are currently suffering, have a hard time finding common ground. Often people who are depressed complain that other people don’t understand what they are going through. But this study suggests that the…
Male CSA Survivor Piece in The Guardian
There’s been an ongoing debate about the memory of child sexual abuse and whether it would be better to have forgotten entirely and never have remembered after shutting down the initial trauma, compared to processing the experiences through therapy. The Guardian newspaper ran a Weekend magazine article today about a survivor whose memories had to…
Link – A man kills himself every 13 minutes in the US and we still don’t know how to talk about it
“As predictable as the appearance of Santa Claus in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, the holiday season is a time of well-meaning warnings and hand-wringing about depression and suicides. But while the stereotype of the lonely relative overcome by emotion during the “most wonderful time of year” has become fairly entrenched in pop culture, it’s…
