What I’m Sharing for Survivors (weekly)
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It’s never too early to teach children about consent and boundaries
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One of Your Employees Is Probably Hiding a Mental Health Problem
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Using Metaphor to Describe the Pain of Depression
tags: CA Depression
It’s never too early to teach children about consent and boundaries
tags: CA ChildAbuse
One of Your Employees Is Probably Hiding a Mental Health Problem
tags: CA Depression
BPS Research Digest: Psychology podcasts: a clickable list
tags: CA Depression
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Seriously? “There’s this idea that people only share things to garner attention, especially when said things are controversial or outside the norm of what most people share. Stories of mental illness tend to fall into the latter category, and some people balk at the idea. They say there’s no other reason to share but to try…
We actually know the things that can offer hope, we just don’t have a system that can deliver them. Our system is broken, the medical community can offer medicine and some limited treatment options but the day-to-day support and the work to reach a state of something more than symptom reduction doesn’t actually exist for most people.
This has to change. Go read more of what he has to say, I think for many of you it will seem familiar, but maybe provide some hope that we are not alone in seeing it.
Now if we can just find enough of us to care enough to fix it. We should all want to, mental health issues will happen to someone we all know and care about, eventually. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to offer a system that does not involve homelessness and prison time for far too many?
These are US-based, so those of you outside the US, please share your local numbers in the comments, but I wanted t bookmark it here for everyone’s reference. “If you or anyone you know is experiencing abuse, domestic violence, suicidal thoughts or sexual assault, these are the numbers to call.” Keep them handy, you never…
For an individual, it may help, and it may not. It’s important to note that a lower incidence of mental health issues does not mean no mental health incidents. You can exercise, drink two cups of coffee, and get a good night’s sleep every day, and while that is good for you and has benefits, there’s no guarantee that you will not be impacted by mental health issues.Â
“Now consider our abuse occurring during this childhood developmental stage, before our little brains have opportunity to grow, develop and experience different perspectives. We are stuck and frozen in a time continuum with one-or-the-other or black and white thinking. Our world partly becomes defined by the perceptions we held during the abusive experience. These perceptions,…
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