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Link – The playing field wasn’t level to begin with: On childhood trauma and the fruitless comparison game.
This is so important as we continue to understand how social media affects us as we look at the “perfect” things people choose to share with the world: If this is you, if you had to spend a majority of your life surviving an abusive childhood, and then later coping with the lingering impacts of…
Sharing – 5 Crucial Mental Health Tips for Bloggers
Whenever anyone asks me about blogging, especially about child abuse and mental health, I tell them that they need to decide two things, and always stick to them.
1. Decide what you will share about your own story, and what is off the table. Don’t share so much of yourself that you wind up becoming overwhelmed and find yourself dealing with the fallout. Remember, once you share it, you no longer control how other people respond. If you’re not ready for that, there’s no shame in it. Just know before you start.
2. The second one, is to decide what you’re willing and able, to give to your readers. This is the hardest one, as the article below mentions:
Sharing – Parents protesting ‘critical race theory’ identify a new target: Mental health programs
Maybe, most importantly, these parents seem to think they know better, that the mental health of their kids is something they can handle on their own. We know that isn’t true. We know the number of teens who have considered suicide is much higher than the number of parents who think their teen has. That doesn’t suggest that what we’ve been doing is working, it suggests that having mental health resources available at school is a net positive for everyone.
But that fact appears to be no match compared to stigma and conspiracy theories.
Link – Help Stop Tragedy: 7 Tips for Suicide Prevention Awareness
“According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), “Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people ages 10-24 … [it] is often the result of mental health conditions that affect people when they are most vulnerable.” Many of us assume that suicide could never happen to someone we love … but…
Reviews Elsewhere – Playing Hurt: My Journey from Despair to Hope
For sports fans in the US, John Saunders is a familiar name from his years on ESPN. His memoir has been released posthumously, and little did I realize the connection between that and child abuse and mental health struggles, but this review from Mental Health America makes it clear that there is definitely a connection….