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Sharing – Your pandemic blues have a name: adjustment disorder
This sounds really familiar… Countless people are wondering if the discomfort they’re experiencing is “normal” or if others are in the same boat. Not only is the feeling normal given the circumstances. It has a name: adjustment disorder. Clinically speaking, adjustment disorder is a stress response syndrome people experience in light of an identifiable life…
Link – Not Enough Sleep Linked to Depression and Anxiety
Society doesn’t value rest, it may be hurting our mental health tremendously. The researchers discovered that regular sleep disruptions are associated with difficulty in shifting one’s attention away from negative information. This may mean that inadequate sleep is part of what makes negative intrusive thoughts stick around and interfere with people’s lives, they say. https://psychcentral.com/news/2018/01/07/not-enough-sleep-linked-to-depression-and-anxiety/130871.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
Link – How Aly Raisman Is Taking Care of Her Mental Health After Sharing Her Experiences With Sexual Abuse
For all the good she has done with taking her message pulbic and using her celebrity to spread the message of all survivors, I’m glad she is also speaking out about this issue. “The last few months I wasn’t putting myself first at all,” she told the magazine. “I was so obsessed with trying to…
Link – Instagram account encourages those with mental illness to share their stories
I always love it when someone takes this technology, and all this connectedness, and does something GOOD with it: “One month ago, frustrated by the stigma and silence that often surrounds mental health disorders, John Sciarretta created an Instagram account that asks people to share their stories about how they coped with their illnesses. The…
Sharing – Though not their purpose, some economic and social policies can help prevent suicide
It turns out that our environment contributes to the mental health crisis, and improving that environment lessens the suicide risk. If the goal is to prevent suicide, then we need to be looking at the world we create around people.
Sharing – Why I Stayed Silent
The central question of the article below is a good one: Why Do victims of nonsexual violent crimes usually involve authorities while most rape survivors remain silent? Most of the article is about adult sexual assault, but she points out that children who are sexually abused face this same question for similar reasons. Those reasons…
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