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Sharing – The Courage to Be New
For abuse survivors, I’ve been on record talking about how so many of us are trying to somehow go back to the life timeline that we would have been on had the abuse not happened, and I’ve suggested that you can’t.
What you can be is something new, though. If you have the courage to try it.
Sharing – Opinion | Why Are Young Americans Killing Themselves?
Dr. Friedman has some suggestions. Some may work, others may not, but his last sentence is the one that needs to jump out at you: “Every day, 16 young people die from suicide. What are we waiting for?” We are losing not only young people, but people of all ages, races, genders, income levels, etc….
Link – A man kills himself every 13 minutes in the US and we still don’t know how to talk about it
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Link – How Depression Affects Your Brain
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Link – Advice for Children Who Have Lost Parents to Suicide
I’ve never forgotten the lesson my math teacher taught me: that we need to learn how to talk about suicide. Here are a few numbers he probably didn’t know, but should: suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States and claims more than 41,000 lives every year. I was not the only…
Link – Mental illness: who’s faking it?
“n recent years, awareness of mental health in the workplace has ramped up – and rightly so. An employee’s job can often be a source of mental illness or, if not the source, then an aggravator of it. So it’s great that initiatives such as RUOK Day are becoming widespread. This, however, has given rise…
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