Shared Links (weekly) May 23, 2021
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No, it isn’t just you… a blog for Mental Health Awareness Week
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Organization uses barbershops to tackle mental health in the Black community
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
No, it isn’t just you… a blog for Mental Health Awareness Week
Organization uses barbershops to tackle mental health in the Black community
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Social media sites like Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, etc. get a lot of bad publicity when it comes to mental health. That’s understandable, because too many people who are vulnerable to bad ideas, use them to feel bad about themselves, or interact with people who hurt them. Social networks are made of people at the end…
“According to the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Mental Health, Black people are 20% more likely to suffer serious psychological distress than White people. Although our suicide rates are lower, it’s clear that our community is under severe mental health distress and there are many of us who find ourselves…
I love this whole article from Terry because this was the one concept that kind of put me over the hump in therapy: “We find our voice and suddenly realize: we get to be whoever we decide we want to be.” When my therapist first asked me that question, “what do you want your life…
We have done a good job of removing the stigma of getting help for things like anxiety, depression, ADHD, and multiple other symptoms of mental health issues. We haven’t done enough to make it acceptable for people to talk about the trauma they’ve suffered. Until we do that, and until we recognize that we all have experienced various levels of trauma, we’re going to continue to have a growing mental health crisis on our hands.
If we take anything away from this pandemic in terms of our self-care regiment, I hope that it is a recognition that many of our “suggestions” for how to practice self-care are completely unreachable to many folks without things like available childcare, stable incomes, some semblance of work-life balance, and the support of others. We can’t just toss another thing on the list of their responsibilities without making it possible for them to do.
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,…