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
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Link – Do’s & Don’ts of Mental Health Social Media Usage
Social Media can be something that brings both great, and awful, things to us when it comes to our mental health. We can all think of some things that fall on both sides of that statement, probably things we’ve seen within the last day. Given that, the advice here from The Calculating Mind would be…
Shared Links (weekly) Jan. 30, 2022
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Toxic positivity & victim blaming women – It’s a short drive from “everything happens for a reason” to “you deserved that”. Just no to all of it.
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Trauma-informed care in mental health: what should it look like
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‘I Don’t Want To Be A Burden’: On Black Men, Suicide And How To Be A Safe Space
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You Are Not Alone in Your Grief, No Matter How ‘Messy’ It Is
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How to Cope with Feeling Off and Getting Back to Your ‘‘Normal’’
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Healing From Trauma Means Cleaning Up the Mess You Didn’t Make
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Reviews Elsewhere – Playing Hurt: My Journey from Despair to Hope
For sports fans in the US, John Saunders is a familiar name from his years on ESPN. His memoir has been released posthumously, and little did I realize the connection between that and child abuse and mental health struggles, but this review from Mental Health America makes it clear that there is definitely a connection….
Are Active Shooter Drills Harming Kids Mental Health?
But what is the least harmful way to deal with that? What is the least harmful way to inform kids of the wars in Ukraine and Gaza? What is the least harmful way to prepare kids for the natural disasters that seem only to get worse each year?
I don’t know. What I do know is that dealing with all of this is hard and only part of the causes of increased needs for youth mental health. Our current mental health system failed many people for years when the need wasn’t this high. What we are doing isn’t working. Continuing to do the same thing won’t work. Fighting against increased funding and availability of resources won’t work. Hiding our heads in the sand and saying, “not my kid,” won’t work. This is a society-wide problem that will require societal change. I am not sure we are willing to make those changes, but an entire generation of kids will pay the price for that unwillingness.
Sharing – Similar patterns of behavior emerge in sex abuse scandals
Look, if you work at a non-profit, you do so for a reason, and that reason is usually tied to the work that the organization does. It’s something you believe in, feel passionate about, and in most cases agree to work for a lower salary to be part of. It’s a massive part of your identity.
Double all of that when the organization works on behalf of kids.
So imagine, if you will, a scenario where you have so much of your own identity tied into the good work done by you and your coworkers, and someone comes along and claims that actually, there are kids being harmed in that environment, not helped at all.
Are we all so sure we wouldn’t at least hesitate and consider for just a moment, that we’d be better off ignoring that and continuing the “good work” on behalf of kids?
I can believe that happens. I can understand how it happens. I can understand how crushing it would be to have something you believed in that strongly, and have part of your team be accused of something so heinous.
But we have to fight that, and make sure that the work we think we are doing on behalf of children, is the whole truth of what is going on in the organization. We cannot afford to lose ourselves, and our better judgment, to our passion for the work. We have to stay level-headed and aware.
Those kids deserve that, and the good work you want your organization to continue doing, requires it.
