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Shared Links (weekly) October 17, 2021
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6 ways to protect your mental health from social media’s dangers
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Here’s Why The Cowardly Victim-Blaming of Sexual Assault Survivors Must End
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Talk about mental health, says farmer who lost dad to suicide
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Here are 7 of the best psychology podcasts to boost your knowledge of the brain and human behavior
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Link – Why Do Adolescents Attempt Suicide?
This study, and this quick breakdown of the results on the AFSP site, shows us that we think we know about adolescent suicide attempts, is way off. It’s not an attempt to “get attention” It’s for the same reasons that adults do it: “-The strongest motivations for suicide attempts in both adults and adolescents using…
Sharing – Mental Health Over Matter: An Interview with Noah Chenevert
We spend so much time shouting from the rooftops when we find something that works, telling anyone and everyone that they NEED to do the same thing. That impulse is understandable. What we leave out, however, are all the things we tried that didn’t work or when the thing that worked for us 2-3 years ago has stopped working.
It would help if we did that more often to remind people that we are not alone but not all the same.
Link – The Brain Under (Sexual) Attack
This is about sexual assault, but it’s the same kind of thing we see with child abuse survivors too: Can’t we just believe survivors, or at least conduct really good investigations, without knowing about the neurobiology of stress and trauma? In theory, maybe, but often the ways people report reacting to assaults can be baffling,…
