What I’m Sharing for Survivors (weekly)
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Link – Lakeland good Samaritan: ‘My life is tarnished’ after social media shaming
Hey remember how we were all supposed to be ashamed of ourselves after that group in England ran an experiment to see who would stop to help a lost child at a rail station? Maybe this is why so few people stopped. This is the society we have become, where a man tries to help…
Sharing – Hot Take: The Teens Are the Sanest of Us All
The real question is, how do you “treat” this level of anxiety when feeling anxious is a perfectly normal reaction to what you see in front of you every day? Should we even be treating it versus accepting it and teaching young people coping skills instead?
I don’t know the answer to that, but I do know that my own anxiety isn’t going anywhere. I’m learning to live with it, some days better than others, but I don’t see why I should think of my anxiety as an abnormal reaction. It makes perfect sense to me.
Sharing – Technology will revolutionise mental health care
The final paragraph of Claudia’s article is full of possibility, but also a warning: The future potential for data-driven mental healthcare is an exciting one. If implemented ethically and responsibly, chatbot technologies and “digital phenotyping” could greatly improve our understanding of the causes of mental health, giving patients the ability to better manage their health. However,…
Sharing – Happy childhood? That’s no guarantee for good mental health
This study out of Australia confirms something I’ve written about many times in regards to things like the ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) study: While the study reaffirmed that people who had adverse and unpredictable early life experiences had elevated symptoms of poor mental health (including depression and paranoia), it also found that children who grew…
We Teach Children all the Wrong Things
I came across this video of Emma Jean Taylor’s TedTalk about child abuse the other day and wanted to share it with you. First because, as the title of the video says, we teach kids to be wary of strangers all the time but we don’t teach them to also be wary of people they know, despite the fact that up to 90% of sexual abuse victims know the abuser.
I fell into that category. I remember learning all about windowless vans and strangers with candy. No one ever told me that someone within my own family could also be a sexual abuser.
November 18 – International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day
It’s a day where people who’ve suffered loss due to suicide can get together, organized by the AFSP. From their website: Survivor Day is the one day a year when people affected by suicide loss gather around the world at events in their local communities to find comfort and gain understanding as they share stories of…
RT @SurvivorNetwork: What I’m Sharing for Survivors (weekly): Why We Don’t Keep Secrets In Our House {Child Abuse Prevention} tags: CA… …
RT @SurvivorNetwork: What I’m Sharing for Survivors (weekly): Why We Don’t Keep Secrets In Our House {Child Abuse Prevention} tags: CA… …
What I’m Sharing for Survivors (weekly) – http://t.co/89YZJ7Ine3 via @Survivornetwork