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 The truth is that abuse victims can be resilient, but generally not on their own. We also know that it doesn’t end there.Â
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New NAMI book for parents and families
NAMI put out the original book – You Are Not Alone, to help people dealing with mental health issues.Â
This week, they released You Are Not Alone for Parents and Caregivers.Â
Sharing – Rest is a Right, Not a Reward
Look, the empty cup analogy is a good one for people who feel the need to put aside their own care to take care of others, but the truth of the matter is that is only part of the equation. We need rest, we need food, and we need self-care because we need those things. There doesn’t need to be another reason, and we sure don’t need to “earn” them.
Sharing – A Shortage Of Mental Health Treatment Beds Can Trap Kids In Crisis Inside ERs
We have to have serious discussions about mental health resources, for adults and kids. This isn’t even about stigma or awareness, this is a system with fundamental flaws, that creates this lack of available, and affordable, resources. This is a society that is unable, and unwilling, to provide basic care for too many of its own members. Is that the society we want to live in? I hope not, but as long as we continue down a path where the best plan we can come up for a teenager struggling with suicidal thoughts is 17 days on a gurney, and sedated, inside of an ER, we are not that society.Â
