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ByMikeM Reading Time: 1 minute

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  • Sharing – Depression Without Sadness: What to Know

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    Numb is exactly the word I would use to describe what I felt. I didn’t look sad, and I didn’t cry. I didn’t talk about my negative emotions. I simply felt nothing. I had lost the ability to feel sad, happy, hopeful, angry, etc. Nothing made any difference, and nothing mattered.

    Often we describe depression as sadness, and our media depictions are of people looking and acting sad. We can’t forget that there are also times when depression doesn’t look like that, it might look like numbness, and it might look like anger and irritation.

  • Sharing – A Look at Mental Health Treatment Stigma

    ByMikeM Reading Time: 2 minutes

    As a blogger, and social media user, yes I want to try and be as careful as I can to post supportive messages, and not make anyone feel stigmatized through my words. That’s important, but I also have to remember that everyone is different. When you’re talking with someone through whatever medium, it’s important to not assume ill-intent. If the term “getting help” feels stigmatizing to you, simply ask people not to use it, suggest some other terms, etc. Have a conversation about how you want to talk about your mental health. Keep the lines of communication open, on both sides.

    That’s how you end stigma. By communicating, instead of shutting anyone down.

  • Link – Physical Vs. Mental Heartbreak: Why Is Depression Treated Differently?

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    “Why Was My Mental Heartbreak Not Taken as Seriously as My Physical Heartbreak?” This is a good question. Why is it easy for us to support someone getting surgery, and encourage them to see experts and take medication as needed, but not do exactly the same for a mental health diagnosis? Why do people feel…

  • Link – How mental health alters decision making

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    “Young kids make decisions based on a set of rules they construct about the world around them – don’t draw on the walls, don’t spit your food, do eat your vegetables. As teenagers, we stop making decisions based on constructed rules and start independently weighing the risks and rewards of different options, but with a…

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    Learn How to Write About Mental Health and Suicide

    ByMikeM Reading Time: 1 minute

    Robert Vore shared this on his Facebook page, and with everything going on this past week, as well as a realization that all of us who deal with mental health issues on any kind of social media platform, I thought it would be appropriate to share. I plan on spending some time with this next…

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    Sharing – The Fun Is Why

    ByMikeM Reading Time: 3 minutes

    I feel like this is something that has gotten continuously worse over the years too. Kids who never get to just play, but are fully booked with one after-school activity after another. Teens are under constant pressure to spend their time doing things that look good on college applications. College-aged young adults are about filling out the resume or getting into the best graduate school programs, only to graduate into jobs that expect them to always be on call, to learn and grow themselves on their own time, all while social media culture tells them they should also have a side-hustle or three.

    Having fun is time that could be spent on any of these accomplishments.

    I’d flip that around. What’s the point of all of those accomplishments if you never have any fun?

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