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.
“Childhood experiences are crucial to our emotional development. Our parents, who are our primary attachment figures, play an important role in how we experience the world because they lay the foundation of what the world is going to look like for us. Is it a safe place to explore and take emotional risks? Are all…
“When researchers asked what did provide comfort to someone who was estranged from a close family member, people said “having someone listen” to them, “being seen as normal,” having someone telling them that they were “an okay person,” and hearing that others had similar experiences all eased the pains. But the strong underlying message is that the complexity of parents and…
“n recent years, awareness of mental health in the workplace has ramped up – and rightly so. An employee’s job can often be a source of mental illness or, if not the source, then an aggravator of it. So it’s great that initiatives such as RUOK Day are becoming widespread. This, however, has given rise…
Coping with Depression
We’re all in this together: Pandemic worsens depression, thoughts of suicide
‘Grave Sexual Abuse’: When the Word Rape Doesn’t Apply To Boys
Make Mental Health Your #1 Priority
How Therapy Helped Me Manage Trauma
Listen, Open Up, Connect: A Mental Health Expert’s Advice On Living Through A Crisis
Why You Can’t Think Your Way Out of Trauma
9 Steps to Healing Childhood Trauma as an Adult
We can hope that education and screening at an early age can help not just the kids who need help, but also get them comfortable with the idea that this happens. “To address mental health concerns early and often can help them become matter-of-fact rather than a matter of shame. The more we can accept and not hide,…