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Shared Links (weekly) Nov. 13, 2022
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Media overload is hurting our mental health. Here are ways to manage headline stress
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Childhood traumas strongly impact both mental and physical health
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Do You Always Need Background Noise? There’s A Psychological Reason Why.– Guilty of doing this for healthy reasons and unhealthy ones.
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Common mental health inequalities across racialised groups: the gaps are getting bigger
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Go Gently – “Whatever you’re going through, remember this: The best way to face uncertain times is with gentleness. With yourself, with your loved ones, and with others.”
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Being Sad All the Time Is Too Much of a Burden – “Know that you will get through this.”
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Sharing – The many faces of mental illness in Blacks
As a white person, I don’t generally have much to say about other groups. It’s not my place to talk about the hows and whys of the reluctance of black Americans to seek out mental health resources.
I do, however, know that there is a gap in the availability of treatment for most minority groups in the US and that it’s important for members of every group to talk about mental health.
Link – Are Support Groups for Depression Really Helpful?
This is such an important caveat. Depression Support Groups are Helpful When They’re Good I attended a support group for abuse survivors for a short time, and it was a very bad experience for me. (I won’t get into details here, but mixing in one male survivor with a group of female survivors who had…
Sharing – How Discrimination Affects Your Mental And Physical Health
Each of us has a choice to make. We can acknowledge that millions of people are oppressed and discriminated against. We can recognize that each additional act of oppression adds to the stress and mental health issues, or we can ignore that and do nothing. We can support celebrities, politicians, and religious figures who have no issue oppressing other people, who favor discriminating against people who are not like us, or we can contribute to lessening the discrimination people face and the harm caused.
Read the article below. Read it slowly and thoughtfully. Then choose wisely.
Great commentary on Ten Things I’ve Learned About Trauma – will share the link in the February Surviving Spirit newsletter. http://www.survivingspirit.com
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