This Week’s Links (weekly)
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Do Your Fears Hold You Back? 3 Simple Strategies to Ease Fear
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Vivian Norris: Breaking the Silence: The Media and Male Sexual Abuse
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Links I’m Sharing (weekly) – May 31, 2020
Google Partners with NAMI To Create an Anxiety-Disorder Self-Assessment The Dangers of Well-Meaning Mental Health Advice We asked how to prevent suicides caused by the pandemic. This is what experts told us Helping Child Abuse Victims During COVID-19 To Kill The Culture of Silence Surrounding Male Sexual Abuse We Need the Voices of Male Advocates 36…
Shared Links (weekly) April 4, 2021
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Ask a Black Therapist: 5 tips to support Black mental health during the Derek Chauvin trial
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A ground breaking campaign that changed the mental health landscape
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How to Save a Life – Suicidality is on the rise in 2021. Talking about it can change everything.
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Book of the Month March 2021 – A Tiny Spark of Hope: Healing Childhood Trauma
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I Use Everything in My Resilience Toolkit to Keep My Mental and Physical Health Intact.
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Sharing – Things People Said to Me About Suicide That Caused More Harm Than Good
What Gaby has to say about things you’d be better off not saying is good, but this last statement is 100% true –
“Most of the time, the only thing you have to do is be there. Most of the time, your only job is to be you, a fellow human being who is not afraid of engaging in a meaningful connection.”
Sharing – Making Mental and Physical Health Discussions Equally Important
I suspect for many parents, the reason they haven’t really had any conversation about mental health issues comes down to this: This can be one of the most difficult things to do and one of the primary reasons that schools and parents will wait until tomorrow what should be discussed today. Let’s face it, as…
Link – As a criminologist studying child abuse, I feel like I live in the upside ‘down’.
I haven’t ever seen the show, but this sounds about right: There’s a moment in Stranger Things where one of the young protagonists confronts a monster from the ‘upside down’, and it invades him. When I’m confronted by people who deny the seriousness of sexual abuse, I wonder if that’s what they are afraid of…
