Links I’m Sharing (weekly)
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Strength Meets Vulnerability: Men and Mental Health Podcast: Transforming Trauma Into Wholeness and Healing Have You Considered The Power of Hope? If you’re here today, there is hope for a better tomorrow. To Heal From Trauma, You Have to Feel Your Feelings 5 Things Therapists Wish Everyone Knew About Mental Health How People Heal After…
Suicide prevention groups urge lawmakers to stop attacking on trans kids
Mental health TikTok is vast and daunting. Here are 5 actually helpful accounts to follow
Society ‘must urgently face up to the reality’ of sexual abuse of children by children
Bystander Intervention Online. If you see harassment happening online
What It Really Means to Take Care of Yourself
– Real self-care isn’t massages and green juices; it’s choosing to create a life that you don’t feel the need to regularly check out of.
This is an older post from the Mental Health First Aid site, but I’ve been thinking a lot about this and being much more purposeful in who I follow and what kinds of things I want in my feeds. I think it’s something to consider because simply using social media is not bad for our…
Therapy in Color links Black Americans with therapists of color
It Is Time To Stop Stigmatizing Mental Health Among Healthcare Workers
Depression- When you stop loving the things you love
People Who’ve Called The National Suicide Prevention Hotline Explain What It’s Really Like
How To Deal With Disappointment ? In Pursuit of Happiness
How to Balance Staying Informed And Your Mental Health
How can you be a good friend to someone who is suicidal?
6 Ways to Self-Soothe When Starved for Touch
I would imagine that part of the reason that no one agrees on the why and how has a lot to do with the fact that it might actually be different for different types of people.
For example, I know some folks who benefit from writing out their emotions, as the article talks about. But there are also those of us who benefit not necessarily from directly writing our emotions to release them, but gain self-awareness through focusing our thoughts to communicate them in written form.
Maybe, there are just a lot of ways writing is good for you, mentally?