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Link – 14-year-old radio host reaches out to other sexual assault survivors
Good for her!!!! Speaking out was a major turning point for Lilly. But not everyone around her thought she was doing the right thing. “Some [adults] told me that it wasn’t okay to talk about this because they think it’s very confronting.” But the results speak for themselves. Lilly has empowered countless survivors…
Sharing – Teen suicide is on the rise. So I talked to teens who attempted suicide.
Read the whole thing, because there’s a lot to consider but I really wanted to highlght these two paragraphs. Sometimes, people who aren’t familiar with caring for teenagers at risk of suicide worry that there is nothing they can do to help if a teen is determined to die. Resoundingly, teenagers expressed just the opposite….
Link – All tip, no iceberg: a new way to think about mental illness
This is an interesting idea: The network approach also has a strong message for all of us who care about mental health and illness. We should abandon the last vestiges of our belief that mental disorders are best seen as medical diseases. The symptoms of depression, PTSD, or social anxiety don’t point to an underlying…
November 18 – International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day
It’s a day where people who’ve suffered loss due to suicide can get together, organized by the AFSP. From their website: Survivor Day is the one day a year when people affected by suicide loss gather around the world at events in their local communities to find comfort and gain understanding as they share stories of…
