This Week’s Links (weekly)
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On Wayne Brady, Mental Illness, and the African American Community
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Eleven Steps to Support a Loved One With Mental Health Problems
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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Sharing – Can brief text messaging reduce repeat hospital-treated self-harm?
When someone gets an automated text that checks in with them on a regular basis, there is an apparent impact that is worth investigating more.
Just imagine what the impact could be if those texts were from friends. What if real people took a moment to check in more often?
I’m feeling a little guilty about this myself. I have some people I need to check in with more often.
Sharing – What Do I Do When Mental Health Coping Strategies Don’t Work?
Sometimes our coping strategies need to adjust to these new realities. That doesn’t mean you are failing, it means you need to adapt. It’s no different than what I often encounter at work, where the technology we work with and assist clients with changes and evolves, and we need to change and evolve with it. What we did yesterday isn’t going to work in today’s reality.
The same is true for our mental health toolkit. We need to keep evolving with it to adapt to changes.
Sharing – Mobile apps, text messaging enhance access to mental health care
For many, there is no possibility of the regular trip to the therapist office that we often imagine mental health care to be. We need more of these kinds of resources if we are going to make a dent in the large percentage of people who never get any treatment, and the more we can move to these types of tools, hopefully the more availability there is for more elaborate resources for those who need that as well.
Sharing – Taking Control of Your Mental Health: Tips for Talking With Your Health Care Provider
For many of us in the US healthcare system, this is a common issue. We need to start our search for help for a mental health issue with our primary care physician. That conversation can be difficult, because we don’t normally talk to them about mental health concerns, and they may not be an expert…
Sharing – ‘Mayo Clinic Anxiety Coach’ e-tool to help children with mental health concerns
This is something that I do believe could be massively helpful right now, and in the future. “To address this urgent patient need, Mayo Clinic has launched an online resource, Mayo Clinic Anxiety Coach, so children and teens can work through treatment resources at home. The website contains two separate programs: Anxiety Coach to assist children…
Blaming Social Media for Mental Health Issues is a Cop Out to Avoid Harder Decisions
What I read in this matches what I see in real life. Some people spend a lot of time on social media doing things that are bad for their mental health. (Comparing their lives to the ultra-filtered images they see on social media, filling their feed with information that is bad for their mental health, etc.) while others use social media to connect with an online support network.
Given that, the calls for banning social media use for kids seem odd, but they are based on that being the easy thing. Blaming big tech will never be unpopular, and there is a possibility that some people might be better off not using social media as much.
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