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Sharing – Police Are the First to Respond to Mental Health Crises. They Shouldn’t Be
If you’ve been around this blog for awhile, nether one of these passages from this article will come as a surprise to you: “Police also don’t have a great track record of de-escalating situations with mentally ill people, who are 16 times more likely to be killed by police officers. One in four people killed by police in 2015 had a…

Sharing – Ben Affleck has been on antidepressants since age 26
why does Ben Affleck continue to take antidepressants? Because “they help”.
If taking medication helps you, short term, or long term. Do it. If taking medication helps other people you know, but offends your sensibilities, shut up and let them do what helps them. Just be glad something is helping them.
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From Tracie: Now Accepting Submissions for the July 2012 Edition of the Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse tags: CA I Hate That I Am A “Survivor” tags: CA 5 Reasons People Don’t Report Child Abuse tags: CA Safeplace speaks out about male sexual abuse Good to see a place that offers help for male and…

Sharing – Antidepressant use in England soars as pandemic cuts counselling access
This is not great. Medication can be incredibly helpful, but it’s really not a “fix” for depression.
“Lucy Schonegevel, the deputy campaigns director at the mental health charity Rethink, said there was a “big risk of antidepressants being prescribed with no support”, adding that such medications should “go hand in hand” with therapy.
Her concerns were echoed by the mental health campaigner Natasha Devon, who said: “People are going to their GPs with symptoms of mental illness and being sent away with a bag of medication, having been put on an 18-month waiting list.””
Link – Childhood abuse still impacting your day-to-day life? Read this!
Research is just now beginning to understand how profoundly the emotional trauma of early child hood affects a person as an adult. They realized that if not healed, these early childhood emotional wounds, and the subconscious attitudes adopted because of them, would dictate the adult’s reaction to, and path through, life. Thus we walk around…