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Mental Health Awareness Means Talking About All Types of Mental Illness
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Matt Haig: teach children about mental health as readily as road safety
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Mental Health Awareness Means Talking About All Types of Mental Illness
Matt Haig: teach children about mental health as readily as road safety
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Kids who show the signs of struggling with mental health issues do a heck of a lot better if we intervene. Sadly, we don’t do it enough. Sometimes it’s because we don’t have any intervention to offer them. There are no resources available to far too many families. Other times parents and adults are afraid to look for help due to the stigma associated with mental health issues, hoping the kid will grow out of it.
“What kind of relief is affordable, efficient, effective and nontoxic? The answer is touch. Hugs and other forms of non-sexual physical soothing, such as hand-holding and head-stroking, intervene at the physical level to help the brain and the body calm down from overwhelming states of anxiety, panic and shame.” Sadly, for many survivors of sexual…
“So, while the experience of depression is relatively unique to each individual who suffers from it, there are certain characteristics that ring true for all of us who’ve been there—namely (and perhaps most importantly in many cases) what depression is not:” Go read the list, but needless to say, I agree, depression is not funny, glamorous, a…
Navigating the online world takes some skill, but getting it right can provide significant benefits to our sense of belonging, community, and act as a decent accessory to our offline relationships.Â
Just be careful not to get into communities that do the opposite, and leave them quickly when that becomes clear.Â