21 Things Nobody Tells You About Being Depressed
This matches my experience with depression, so very much!
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There are a handful of things in here that would be good to remember if someone close to you is dealing with depression or some similar mental health issue. Much of it though comes down to the old maxim, “half of life is just showing up”. Just be there. Instead of avoiding someone who is…
How can parents and other adults help children and teens living with undiagnosed, untreated PTSD find the help they need? An understanding of the symptoms of PTSD is a good place to start. Some of the symptoms in children and teens are the same as those for babies and toddlers. These include hypervigilance, emotional distress…
This is atrocious. Think about this for a second: “About half of people in the United States are estimated to have a diagnosable mental illness at some point in their lives. Whether we’re talking about major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, OCD, schizophrenia, or a host of other mental health conditions, this accounts for more than…
It’s hoped this film, released by police after an appalling case of child grooming, rape and murder, will help parents, guardians and youngsters everywhere understand the dangers of online exploitation. It’s worth a watch, if for no other reason than to see how this sort of thing can escalate very quickly. In this case, the…
BuzzFeed recently interviewed four suicide attempt survivors in a moving video. Each spoke about the challenges they faced that led them to attempt to take their own lives, and then about the ways they’ve learned to cope since then. “It gets better,” one of the interviewees, whose name isn’t shared, says in the video below….
This is an interesting thing to consider. “Self-rated mental health is a very powerful construct that can be useful in clinical practice if we consider it a potential screener for mental health. Positive ratings of mental health even in the face of symptoms might not be a result of denial but may offer valuable insights…
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.@SurvivorNetwork Excellent. I’m always surprised at how little is understood about how complex depression really is…an RT for sure…
RT @SurvivorNetwork: This Week’s Links (weekly): 21 Things Nobody Tells You About Being Depressed This matches my experience with depr… …