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 – Strange Healing is Still Healing
My biggest epiphany in therapy was the freedom to make my own life moving forward, because I had never felt I was allowed to do so. Going back to the person I was before I was abused would not have been that.
After all, everyone is changing all the time. Trauma or not, people move forward in their lives and change. Going back isn’t a solution.
Link – Shifting Your Perspective to Notice Your Progress
All of this. “You may not be where you want to be in life, but if you’ve made progress, any progress, take a moment today to remember it, celebrate it, and learn from it because acknowledging your successes and building off your progress can really help you move forward.” So, so many survivors are stuck…
Reviews Elsewhere – The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in Healing Trauma
There are certain books that I’ve seen discussed in the survivor community so often that it can be easy to overlook them when talking about recommendations for someone starting out on their healing journey. Bessel van der Kolk’s book about healing from trauma, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in Healing Trauma, falls into that category.
Sharing – What’s going on in depression to make negative beliefs so sticky?
I think this is important to understand because so often we assume that someone with negative thoughts or doubts about themselves and the people around them just needs to be shown some contradictory information and they’ll move away from it. For many of us, that is true. I can say “I’m bad at this”, or distrust people but if someone were to offer some contradictory facts I might be swayed fro that thinking.
When I was dealing with major depression? There was never enough contradictory evidence that would cause me to rethink my feelings, they were too powerful and they were too much a part of me.
Link – UK Mental Health Study
This is a really interesting, but quite lengthy, read. Brandwatch put together a large survey of UK social media conversations. We analyzed over 12 million conversations to understand how mental health is discussed online. A couple of interesting takeaways I got, though I’m sure you may come away with different ones: Clearly events like Mental Heath…
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