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ByMikeM Reading Time: 1 minute
    Know your limits, i.e. when I start feeling angry at tweets, it’s time to walk away

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ByMikeM Reading Time: 1 minute

I appreciate that there is someone researching this, and I am also glad that the subject of the article, artist Donalen Rojas Bowers, is sharing her story as well. It’s not an easy thing to talk about, it’s not an easy thing to learn about, and it’s definitely not an easy thing to find out someone you love is self-harming.

None of that unease should matter when compared to understanding and helping kids and adults who feel the need to self-harm because there have no better options available. The only way we find those is to talk about this.

Link – Two child sex offenders explain how they picked their targets

Link – Two child sex offenders explain how they picked their targets

ByMikeM Reading Time: 1 minute

Lots of good information in this article, about how they weren’t who you would suspect, they worked to gain the trust of a child by minimizing the other adults in their lives, especially their parents, and used technology to communicate because parents weren’t savvy enough to keep track of how their kids used technology. I’m…

Link – Men And Women Should Be Treated For Depression Differently, Study Suggests

Link – Men And Women Should Be Treated For Depression Differently, Study Suggests

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I mean, we already know depression symptoms vary widely by individual, and that there are general differences in how those symptoms are displayed by men and women, now we have actual gene studies of brains to show that there is a difference: “It’s worth remembering that major depressive disorder affects women approximately twice as often…

Link – Therapists fight mental health stigma by sharing experiences

Link – Therapists fight mental health stigma by sharing experiences

ByMikeM Reading Time: 2 minutes

Since it’s been a number of years since I was seeing a therapist, and I was much less educated about any of this back then, it hasn’t occurred to me to be concerned about whether my therapist had, in fact, also been i therapy. So, my question is, would it bother you to know your…

Sharing – On TikTok, mental health creators are confused for therapists. That’s a serious problem.

Sharing – On TikTok, mental health creators are confused for therapists. That’s a serious problem.

ByMikeM Reading Time: 2 minutes

But, if you had a broken arm, you wouldn’t hop online and talk to your life coach. You’d go see a professional to have it treated. There’s a reason for that, just as there should be a reason why, when someone needs mental health advice, they should get it from professionals, and not random people on the internet.

Link – With an epidemic of mental illness on the streets, counties struggle to spend huge cash reserves

Link – With an epidemic of mental illness on the streets, counties struggle to spend huge cash reserves

ByMikeM Reading Time: 1 minute

I only have an eye roll for this: When California voters passed a tax on high-income residents in 2004, backers said it would make good on the state’s “failed promise” to help counties pay for the treatment of the mentally ill. After nearly 15 years, Proposition 63 — the Mental Health Services Act — has…

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