This Week’s Links (weekly)
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On Marrying a Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse – Shonna Milliken Humphrey – The Atlantic
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How to Find Someone to Talk to When You Can’t Afford Therapy
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Study shows men just as likely to be depressed as women
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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 Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
“n recent years, awareness of mental health in the workplace has ramped up – and rightly so. An employee’s job can often be a source of mental illness or, if not the source, then an aggravator of it. So it’s great that initiatives such as RUOK Day are becoming widespread. This, however, has given rise…
We’re a long way from actual proof, but the research so far is showing some promise. This could be huge, as one of the most frustrating things for people who do finally make the effort to get help for mental health issues, is a lack of available resources. Being waitlisted for even an initial appointment…
I want you to think about this quote – The reality of mental illness is it affects us in different ways. Sure, some of us do fit that crying on the floor in the middle of the night image, but some people become irritable, angry, and completely unreasonable, just to name a few examples, and…
Aside from the advice for healing, the facts around incest will blow you away: Incest is defined as sexual contact between persons who are so closely related that their marriage is illegal, such as in the case of parents and children, first cousins, and siblings. Incest usually takes the form of an older family member…
“So what happens when we say “get over it” to someone with depression that is driven by unconscious repression? Here, the “get over it” confronts the depressed mind with an impossible task: (1) gain conscious control of an unconscious process that is currently operating out of your awareness, or (2) do a thing you simply…
This is interesting. There’s no question that our mental health system in the US is not getting the job done, and a big reason is because it simply isn’t funded properly. But could it be the stigma of mental illness that is causing that problem in the first place? Could it be that not having…