What I’m Sharing for Survivors (weekly)
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Links I’m Sharing (weekly) Sept. 6 2020
Toxic Shame and How to Overcome It
How To Be A Mental Health Advocate
Nancy Hogshead-Makar on Sexual Abuse in Olympics and College Sports
When Your Mental Illness Comes in Waves
Suicide Prevention Month
Some interesting “lunch and learn” programs you may want to consider.
We Can All Prevent Suicide
Male suicides at highest rate in two decades, official data shows | UK News
What Most People Don’t Know About Psychological Trauma
Sexual minorities and suicide prevention
Using Humor as a Coping Tool
Sharing – Why Attachment Is a Key Factor in Your Mental Health
This article is mostly about early childhood development, but I think this is a beacon of hope for all survivors. “Although this sounds dire, reparative experiences of attachment can help us grow and resolve our trauma. These experiences can come through therapy, but they can also come through stable, intimate relationships where we can feel…
Sharing – When the Alarm Won’t Stop Ringing
The point, however, is that having intrusive thoughts, anxious thoughts, is something we can talk about, even make jokes about. It happens. We can’t always control what messages our brains want to send us about what we should be afraid of. We control which ones we react to. We control knowing the difference between a realistic fear and an intrusive one.Â
Mostly, I feel like if we all admitted to having them, maybe it wouldn’t be something to freak out about when someone else has one.Â
Online Education – Not Just for Tech and Career Skills
I’ll admit it, if you asked me where online you could educate yourself about Mental Health and self-care, LinkedIn Learning and Coursera wouldn’t have been at the top of my mind. Thankfully, the Make Use Of website knows better. They’ve shared some recommendations on courses you can take online:
Reviews Elsewhere – The Gap and the Gain by Dr. Benjamin Hardy
If this gap feeling describes where you are in your healing, turn your gaze around from looking at the goal and how far it may be to how much further along you are on that path than you were 1, 3, or 5 years ago.
You might be surprised by how far you’ve come in that time. You might even take a moment to feel proud of yourself.
@SurvivorNetwork Took me 43 years to mention it to authority .Luckily the police. Know it happened .Always spoken to family about it
Thomas Maloney liked this on Facebook.
@SurvivorNetwork Thanks for sharing my story. Bigger-picture aspect of it here: Institutionalized rape culture: http://t.co/6i5hBzlREz