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Sharing – A Shortage Of Mental Health Treatment Beds Can Trap Kids In Crisis Inside ERs
We have to have serious discussions about mental health resources, for adults and kids. This isn’t even about stigma or awareness, this is a system with fundamental flaws, that creates this lack of available, and affordable, resources. This is a society that is unable, and unwilling, to provide basic care for too many of its own members. Is that the society we want to live in? I hope not, but as long as we continue down a path where the best plan we can come up for a teenager struggling with suicidal thoughts is 17 days on a gurney, and sedated, inside of an ER, we are not that society.
Link – An Australia-wide campaign to shine a light on mental illness
This sounds like a great event for you Aussies. Advocacy group Australians For Mental Health is calling on communities to join its campaign to fix the country’s flailing mental health system. “This June gather your friends, neighbours and coworkers and host an event to shine a light for those affected by suicide and mental illness,”…
Link – Kate Bowler: “Everything happens for a reason” — and other lies I’ve loved
This is a hard TedTalk to watch. Not only does Kate discuss her cancer diagnosis, and her struggle in a very straight-froward manner, she also takes on this idea that life is fair, or that everything is part of a plan for our own prosperity. She studied the religious connotation of this, the “prosperity gospel”,…
Sharing – Why Complex Trauma Survivors Can’t Just ‘Get Over It’
You don’t decide to get over that. It’s not impossible to heal from it but it’s going to require quite a bit more than just deciding to get over it. So maybe you’d do a lot more good supporting people through that process instead of demanding they get over it so you can feel more comfortable.
