Links I’m Sharing (weekly)
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Let’s take a moment to appreciate the partners of people with mental health issues
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Friends in Crisis: What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Let’s take a moment to appreciate the partners of people with mental health issues
Friends in Crisis: What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
It’s not just you feeling drained, and unable to concentrate. “If you know what’s coming, your brain can prepare you to deal with it. If you don’t know but there’s a possibility of harm, your brain gets vigilant, and overactive trying to guess the most likely outcome and execute a coping strategy. Because the best…
After spending 18 days with some amazing staff and doctors, I could feel happiness and hope again. I wrote this about four months after I left crisis unit. At that point I was just happy to be able to go the grocery store, socialize and enjoy the little things again. I was not only functioning though. I thought…
I don’t know anyone that isn’t more irritable now than they were a year ago, but do we know why? And what do we do about it? This seems like a fairly accurate picture of our current situation: “In fact, neuroscience tells us is that irritability and anger aren’t in our conscious control. Think of…
The story is very familiar and has been widely covered by television news and documentary teams across the world; Jaycee Lee Dugard is kidnapped aged 11 in 1991 and only returns in 2009 with her children. After missing multiple chances to catch her kidnapper, the father of her children, and his wife, they are picked…
Mark it down Canada. Based on what I’ve seen on social media in past years, this has been a huge success not only in terms of raising awareness, but also hard cash! Also note, for some of these, you don’t even have to be Canadian to take part. “Bell donates 5 cents to Canadian mental…