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Sharing – Denmark is encouraging people with depression and mental health issues to take part in cultural activities.
We know we have more people dealing with depression and anxiety than we have resources to help. We also know that being “connected” is a huge part of suicide prevention and can even help with anxiety and mild depression. Why not try something like this instead of throwing up our hands and giving up when…
It’s Amazing What You Get Used To
When Nedra talks about growing up in an alcoholic family, naturally that was something that resonated with me. Growing up my father was an alcoholic. It was normal for me to fear your father, especially when they’d been drinking. It was normal for there to be violence at home. It was normal for children to be physically attacked for as little as making too much noise.
Perhaps worst of all, it was also normal to keep it all secret, to not share what happens at home outside of the immediate family.
Which made it all the more easy for the sexual abuse I suffered later to be kept secret. And, in some odd way, for it also to seem normal.
Link – People Overestimate How Much Willpower Helps Mental Illness
Yes, it’s true: “This is actually quite simple. People like to think they have control. People like to think they have control over their mental health. People like to think their will is keeping them free from illness. People like to feel like mental illness can’t touch them because of their “superior” willpower.” Natasha goes…
Link – To Stop Workplace Harassment, Start By Educating Our Children
I want to tie this post with the one I posted yesterday, because we see here the logic of something happening in childhood, and continuing into adulthood, and the workplace. “Today’s schoolyard bullies will become tomorrow’s workplace bullies. Thus, if you want to stop workplace harassment, then start educating our children about these issues.” Likewise,…
Link – Mental Illness: What’s Missing From Anti-Stigma Campaigns
I think Emilie may be on to something with this. With the over representation of some mental disorder and the under representation of other mental disorders, there seems to be ‘’socially acceptable’’ mental health issues (even though there is still a long way to go) and less ‘’socially acceptable’’ mental health issues. Sometimes the less…
Sharing – How to heal through life writing
This is an interesting way to think about writing, whether you do it publicly like Uddipana did, or just write for yourself.
