This Week’s Links (weekly)
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‘Dancing’ Star to Talk About Child Abuse During Charity Luncheon Thursday
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You Can’t Always See Suicidal Intent | World of Psychology
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Link – Tokyo Zoo Offers Itself up as Refuge for Anyone Suffering From Depression or Anxiety – Geek.com
This is actually a pretty decent message. I mean, sure it’s also a marketing ploy, but it is important to have somewhere you can go to recharge and be safe from time to time. Zoos are a fairly good choice for that. “To everyone who’s feeling distressed about going back to school, When running away…
Link – The Stigma of Mental Illness in Rural America
I can’t say for myself that this has been an issue, but I have lived in very large cities for most of my life. “Your neighbors don’t have a clue in a city if you’re going to go get some help. But everybody [in a small town] will know if your pickup truck is parked…
Reviews Elsewhere – The Book of Burnout – Bev Aisbett
I stumbled across this review from Verushka on Twitter yesterday. (Hey, it’s still good for something, sometimes!) Her description got my attention, and I thought it might also interest some of you:
What is this about?
Burn out; the different types — from carers to COVID and more. And some straightforward advice you probably already know, but might need a reminder of. I know I did.
What else is this about?
Mental health in today’s COVID, online, WFH world.
Do You Fear Happiness?
How often, as children, did we decide to “fly under the radar” and not draw attention to something that brought us happiness because that just created a target? How many of us, as adults, still live with the fear that identifying something that makes us happy only invites someone to hurt us by taking it away? Even when there is no one there to take it, we live with that fear and don’t get too attached to anything.
My hope for all of us is to find a safe place to overcome that and enjoy the things that make us happy.
