This Week’s Links (weekly)
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Shared Links (weekly) August 20, 2023
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Loneliness in adulthood tied to accelerated brain aging, new research reveals
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Hardest Parts of Bipolar Disorder– I don’t talk about Bipolar often, because I don’t have Bipolar, and I’d rather link to people with lived experience, like this.
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The Role Of Therapy In Overcoming Childhood Neglect And Trauma
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Talking about mental health at home: What do you wish your parents knew?
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Link – Rehab Industry Marketing Needs Federal Oversight, Regulation
Dr. Grohol has a lot to say about misleading advertising, and other practices within the addiction treatment industry. We know there are some sketchy advertising practices, and we know there are even some sketchy treatment being given to people dealing with addiction, let alone the mental health treatment many of them also need. Sadly, when…
Sharing – Just how useful is childhood therapy?
Unfortunately, whether therapy is effective for your child, or for yourself as an adult, depends on a number of factors. Finding someone you can trust is an obvious one, and sometimes a real struggle. Elsewhere in the article, Melinda talks about the child not currently being in a traumatic situation, notably one interviewee who was seeing a therapist for depression while also being sexually abused at home. She knew she could talk about that, so the therapy was doomed from the start.
Sometimes I believe we look at mental health treatments like therapy and dismiss them because “it didn’t work” without considering all of the outside factors that can influence whether it works or not.
Sharing – Stop Calling It A ‘Male Epidemic’ – Loneliness Is Everywhere
We have created a culture that makes it challenging to form and sustain meaningful connections. It truly is a cultural problem. Whether it’s the lack of third places, our focus on work instead of community, or the fear of reaching out to others, we’re growing increasingly isolated.Â
That isolation might feel like independence, but it does real harm.
Sharing – When Grief Has No Grave: Rebuilding After a Childhood You Never Got
We struggle enough to talk about grief when someone dies. We don’t even come close to acknowledging the other things we can and should be grieving. As an abuse survivor, I still grieve for the childhood I never had, the close relationships with parents I never had, and the freedom to enjoy life that I didn’t have as a child.
Link – Does Your Family Know Your Mental Health Care Preferences?
This is good advice if you think it may be possible that you’ll be in a position where you, or a loved one, may be unable to advocate for yourself. More than half of the U.S. states recognize psychiatric advance directives, legal documents that detail instructions for mental health care when a person is not…
RT @SurvivorNetwork: This Week’s Links (weekly): The Complexities of Trauma: A Basic Understanding … …