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Link – #FacesOfPTSD
“What is the #FacesOfPTSD campaign? #FacesOfPTSD is a social media campaign set to kick-off this Friday, May 6, 2016. Survivors who identify as having PTSD will flood social media with photos of themselves, along with the tagline, “Not all wars take place on the battlefield,” and the hashtag #FacesOfPTSD. Our goal is to alter the…
Link – History shows abuse of children in custody will remain an ‘inherent risk’ – report
If you spend any time at all thinking about children and the criminal justice system, this is not a huge surprise. “A new report on the history of safeguarding children detained for criminal offences in the UK has concluded that it is impossible to remove the potential for abuse in secure institutions, and that the…
Reading – What No One Tells You About Depression
“Depression is selfish, narcissistic, and aggressively self-consuming. Depression is selfish, and it affects 20 to 25 percent of the U.S. population and 350,000,000 people globally. Depression is selfish, and it contributes to more than 41,000 suicide deaths in the United States every year. Depression is selfish, and it’s a mental illness that shouldn’t be left…
Sharing – Men, Mental Health and the Workplace
This is actually a three part video series, and I wanted to share them all because I think there’s a lot of good stuff in the discussion about men’s mental health, and why it’s not something we talk about enough. In them Graham Goulden and Toni White, break down some of the reasons for that,…
Sharing – Why Leisure Is Never a Waste of Time
I know it’s become cliché to talk about depression and anxiety as part of the response to COVID19, but that really ignores the fact that the rates were going up even before the pandemic. Why? I think our cultish belief in productivity, and “hustling” is a big part of that. If you can’t ever rest, and take a break from your to-do list, you’re going to struggle.
