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.
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Sharing – Taking control of your own mental health can improve it
I found this study interesting because I do believe the thing that has pushed me from mild anxiety or depression into a worse state is not believing I could do anything. Not having any hope, in other words. These folks sound something very similar:
Sharing – What Is Secondary Trauma?
When I started on this, I didn’t realize I’d be doing these sessions in the wake of layoffs and the middle of a bunch of other changes impacting these folks. Suddenly the conversation about their career goals has turned into a conversation about the trauma of going through a layoff.
As I mentioned to someone recently, this was more emotional labor than I had anticipated.
Learn How to Be There
I found out about this online training recently and wanted to share it:
Learn to support someone struggling with their mental health through this online course created by Jack.org in partnership with Born This Way Foundation.
You can sign up on the website below and let us know what you think about it.
Sharing – Why resilience won’t solve the mental health crisis among young people
I’ve said it before and I’ll keep repeating it until everyone gets it. Exercise, meditation, resilience, and emotional intelligence are great things to do for our mental health. Still, they will never raise someone out of poverty, eliminate oppression, sexism, racism, etc., or clean up pollution and eliminate climate disasters. We cannot teach kids to be more resilient and do nothing to minimize the amount of trauma they are dealing with every day.
Link – With an epidemic of mental illness on the streets, counties struggle to spend huge cash reserves
I only have an eye roll for this: When California voters passed a tax on high-income residents in 2004, backers said it would make good on the state’s “failed promise” to help counties pay for the treatment of the mentally ill. After nearly 15 years, Proposition 63 — the Mental Health Services Act — has…
Sharing – Allowing Survivors of Suicide Loss to Be Honest
As Brandy shares, processing grief can sometimes mean being angry, or feeling things about the death of a loved one that don’t always jive with how we’d want suicide reported, but these are not spokespeople, advocates, or reporters, they are people dealing with their own pain.
Maybe, if we want people to speak their truth, we need to give them the room to express it the way they feel it, not silence them in the interest of not hearing terms we don’t love.
