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Shared Links (weekly) Aug. 8, 2021
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Sam and Chris Gould: Twins’ suicides lead to victim policing change
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Polly’s story: The long-lasting and corrosive impact of child sexual abuse
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Struggling Activist And Feeling Helpless
– Before you can do more to help others, you need to also take care of your own mental health.
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The science behind panic attacks — and what can you do to manage them
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“Instagram therapy” and how women use social media for mental health support, solidarity
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Prison and mental illness: the unmet needs associated with reincarceration
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Link – Understanding Recidivism Through Child Abuse and Mental Health
This makes sense. We know that child abuse increases the likelihood of not only mental health issues in adulthood, but also a lack of social skills and development. Those are exactly the kinds of things that leave people desperate enough to commit crime. Treating those things would assist in providing other options. In 2016, Chicago…
Sharing – Our mental health crashed in 2020. Recovery could take years
The article below gets into a lot more of the details of how different groups have been affected in a variety of ways, but the thing that I found myself nodding along to was this idea. This is not going to go away this Summer. People you know who have struggled, and have anxiety about things opening back up again, or are dealing with grief and depression, or the aftermath of all of the trauma that we’ve borne witness to over the last couple of years, are not going to just be “back to normal” and ready to hit happy hour like nothing happened.
We’re not there. We’re not going to be there for awhile. Give those people, and yourself if that describes you, some grace and patience.
Most of all, don’t stigmatize anyone for not being OK for a bit. We’ve all been dealing with different levels of trauma and anxiety, and you likely don’t even know half of how much people around you have been dealing with.
So, just be kind, OK?
Sharing – Top 10 Best Suicide Prevention Quotes Annotated by an Attempt Survivor
Dwade picks out some excellent quotes that have helped. Some of these were familiar to me, other were not. This one though, hit home for me: ““I wonder if it will rain after we die. When you kill yourself, you don’t know what happens next, afterward.” ~Albert Borris Once again, this one gives me an…
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