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Link – Share Your Story
This is true. The only way people will know they are not alone, is if they hear from those of us who can tell our stories, and the more stories there are, the harder it will become for mental health issues to be ignored by those who refuse to see that people all around them…
Links I’m Sharing (weekly)
5 tips for talking about your mental health Growing Beyond Labels: We are Not Simply a Disorder Toxic Positivity: It’s a Thing Breaking the bubble of silence around child sexual abuse Why We All Need to Understand That Mental Health Problems Don’t Look a Certain Way Why I Choose to Self-Disclose About My Mental Illnesses…
Shared Links (weekly) July 23, 2023
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From Panic to Peace: Practical Techniques for Coping with Trauma-Related Panic Attacks
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End the Silence: Ask for Help with Mental Health with Thom Singer
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Why We Need to Keep Writing (and Reading) about Mental Health
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Goodbye, Perfect: How to Stop Pleasing, Proving, and Pushing for Others… and Live For Yourself
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Healing from Within: Empowering Steps on the Journey to Overcoming Depression
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Connection Matters – An Example
As I read this, I couldn’t help but compare it to the hundreds of stories where the opposite was true. People are so afraid of saying the wrong thing or so uncomfortable with the idea of mental health issues that they run the other way. They disconnect from someone who so desperately needs connection. Someone they love is feeling all that embarrassment and pain and no longer has anyone to connect to and remind them of their value, their humanness.
As the title of Elizabeth’s post says, we need each other.
