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Sharing – Stigma is Killing Us
There’s simply no way you don’t know people struggling right now. Whether you want to consider the levels of anxiety and depression a disorder or a natural reaction to the state of the world today, we would all do well with more compassion and grace.Â
A lot more. People are dying without it.Â
Link – Self-Stigma and Mental Health
This is something I think many of us go through in our own ways – I want to dispel the existing stigma applied to mental health. Through communication and using my voice I can raise awareness. While I can research how people’s attitudes and beliefs perpetuate the stigma, and write about them — speaking publicly…
This Week’s Links (weekly)
Pleasant Valley grad helps put her sexually abusive father in prison, pens novel to help other victims | PoconoRecord.com Mobile Edition tags: CA Let’s get this straight: Child victims are never at fault | MailTribune.com tags: CA Sandusky’s ‘Victim No. 1’ talks about preventing child sex abuse tags: CA Virtual and Offline Sexual Predators Not…
Link – Depression Analogy Description, What Is Depression Like
I find it to be pretty accurate as well. How about you? “”You don’t know why, but now everything you eat tastes like mashed potatoes and nothing you eat is satisfying,” it reads. “You keep eating because you must eat to live, but the effort that it takes to prepare food is taxing and there…
Link – Judge orders couple who started fundraiser for homeless man to hand over money after they allegedly use funds for flights, gambling
I’m sharing this story, not because I want to shame anyone in particular, but to try and explain why I ignore so many requests from people to share their attempts to raise money or sign petitions in support of their story. Here is, yet again, a case of a cause that went viral in a…
This Week’s Links (weekly)
Study shows men just as likely to be depressed as women tags: CA On Marrying a Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse – Shonna Milliken Humphrey – The Atlantic tags: CA How to Find Someone to Talk to When You Can’t Afford Therapy tags: CA 5 Ways to Help a Depressed Friend tags: CA Posted from…
