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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
Another Reminder – Just Because Something Works for Others, Does Not Mean It’ll Work For You
If Mindfulness is something that helps you, great. If it doesn’t, don’t beat yourself up over that fact, or continue a practice that is actually causing harm. That makes no sense at all. Just accept that it’s not for you, and hopefully, the people around us who are pushing it as the cure-all, especially the ones trying to sell it to you, can learn to accept that too.
What has your experience with it been? What other “recommended” tools have not worked for you? How did you handle the folks who continue to tell you it would?
Sharing – Sending Out an SOS: Help Combat Childhood Trauma
We don’t see it because we don’t talk about it enough. We don’t talk about it enough because it’s an uncomfortable topic. It’s not “fun” to talk about childhood trauma, even though almost everyone experiences it directly or indirectly. Everyone knows people who have lived through childhood trauma or are currently living with it. They just don’t talk about it or know what to do. And since we don’t talk about it, solving it doesn’t become much of a priority.
Sharing – Taking control of your own mental health can improve it
I found this study interesting because I do believe the thing that has pushed me from mild anxiety or depression into a worse state is not believing I could do anything. Not having any hope, in other words. These folks sound something very similar:
Link – 10 podcasts about mental health
Before my latest job change, when I was traveling all the time, I listened to quite a few podcasts. It’s a habit I’ve since gotten away from, because I’m not on planes and/or out of the country anymore, but it is something I’ve been considering getting back in to. If you’re a podcast listener and…
