Shared Links (weekly) April 18, 2021
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
This article explains a lot of the reasons why we should stop ignoring mental health as a workplace issue. If this pandemic, and movement for racial justice should remind all of us, work doesn’t happen in a vacuum apart from the rest of our lives, and world events. Yet, it also references mental health as…
“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…
This is atrocious. Think about this for a second: “About half of people in the United States are estimated to have a diagnosable mental illness at some point in their lives. Whether we’re talking about major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, OCD, schizophrenia, or a host of other mental health conditions, this accounts for more than…
Facing the Reality of Sibling Sexual Abuse – tags: CA ChildAbuse US Swimming sexual abuse scandal continues to grow tags: Sports CA ChildAbuse This Moving Short Video Takes You Inside The Mind Of Someone Struggling With Depression tags: CA Depression Depression Is Not A Scandal tags: CA Depression How to Understand Your Partner’s (Or Your…
The Psych Approach – NYTimes.com ” Childhood stress can have long lasting neural effects, making it harder to exercise self-control, focus attention, delay gratification and do many of the other things that contribute to a happy life.” tags: CA Blog Against Child Abuse – September 2012 Edition tags: CA Sibling Abuse – Children Abusing Other…
For abuse survivors, I’ve been on record talking about how so many of us are trying to somehow go back to the life timeline that we would have been on had the abuse not happened, and I’ve suggested that you can’t.
What you can be is something new, though. If you have the courage to try it.