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Shared Links (weekly) Aug. 13 2023
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Social Media: Keep it Positive – Spreading Joy and Uplifting Others
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7 Tips for Addressing Back-to-School Anxiety– It’s that time of year again.
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As Legislation Targeting LGBTQ and BIPOC Youth Increases, We Need to Protect Their Mental Health
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Video Record-breaking heat in South forces millions of Americans to stay indoors– I was just talking about this in the newsletter last week. It’s too hot to be out in nature.
Link – Mental Illness: What’s Missing From Anti-Stigma Campaigns
I think Emilie may be on to something with this. With the over representation of some mental disorder and the under representation of other mental disorders, there seems to be ‘’socially acceptable’’ mental health issues (even though there is still a long way to go) and less ‘’socially acceptable’’ mental health issues. Sometimes the less…
Sharing – One in 100 deaths is by suicide
I want abuse survivors to know that healing is possible. I want people dealing with mental health issues to have hope that they can get better. I work hard to get that message out, but those 700,000 people who died by suicide in 2019 won’t ever get to read what you just read. They aren’t here.
I’m tired of that. These numbers are so much more than numbers.
Sharing – Mental illness is so stigmatised, I sometimes wish my son had had cancer
This is a sad statement, and probably shocking to any of you who’ve not had to deal with an obvious, and public, mental illness. I have no idea what it’s like to deal with the kind of struggle her son is dealing with, but I do remember after having a dissociative episode tied to major…