Another day, another story about Mark Zuckerberg’s opt-in Truman Show social network, Facebook. This time, the site responded quickly to complaints about a page that trolled sexual assault. The Daily Mail has the story here.
None of the songs on the list were ones I listened to when I needed some motivation, but were they yours? For me, being kind of a punk/alternative fan, it was much more about songs like Sometimes by Midnight Oil, or The Clash’s I’m Not Down. What would you add? http://themighty.com/2015/10/depression-songs-to-cheer-you-up-on-hard-days/
Another one of Jimmy Savile’s male victims – on the mainland not the Jersey-based disclosure reported by a law firm – disclosed in a TV interview and the Daily Mail reported it with a short clip of the interview from English daytime show This Morning. That article is here and UK viewers should be able…
This might just mean that the majority of the people around us right now are likely dealing with some sort of mental health struggle. This would also mean that there is nothing wrong with us, that we are the normal ones. That there is no weakness in us, or something lacking in us, but rather that we are having a normal reaction to a world that is causing anxiety and depression.
The fix is out there, not inside of us. We can only do what we can to cope, take care of ourselves, and find the tools that allow us to continue, but the real solution is much larger than that. The real solution will require much more. The real solution to mental health issues is fixing society and the world we live in.
If you want solutions, that’s where you start. How do we build a world where being anxious and depressed isn’t an understandable and normal reaction?
Being a big fan to this day of Australia’s Midnight Oil, I was keen to listen to this interview with drummer Rob Hirst. I did not expect to find such a compelling mental health story in the midst of this interview, but there it was. Early on Rob talks about his brother’s struggle with depression…
British Prime Minister David Cameron broke off from a visit to the Middle East and announced a full and wide-reaching enquiry into the initial handling of Welsh care home scandals dating back to the 1970s. This follows just one day after the re-interviewing of Stephen Messham who previously gave inquiry evidence that was 30% censored for the abuse that took place outside…
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