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Stephen Messham made one of his first public statements since last week’s mistaken identification of an ex-Conservative Party politician, and the Daily Mail’s hatchet job, when talking to BBC Wales’s Week In Week Out programme. Since this is currently unavailable to other regions on BBC’s iPlayer, the news website has the summary here. Also last week Sky News…

Sharing – Ideas to Self-Soothe When Trauma Makes You Feel Unloved
There are two things I want you to think about here.
1. Save the things that comfort you to look at, listen to, read, etc. Whatever works for you on a hard day to feel a bit better, save those. Encourage other people to do the same.
2. Send more messages that people can save to make them feel less alone on a hard day. I love that the first response a friend had to hearing Monika saved messages like this, and might have lost them, was to send exactly that kind of message.
So hey, send more of those. Remind people in your life that you appreciate them and care about them. In personal and professional relationships, just say thank you in meaningful ways. You never know who saves those messages to get them through the days they don’t feel good enough.
I do. I bet people around you do too.

Shared Links (weekly) June 26, 2022
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3 people with serious mental illness share their pandemic journeys
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Why So Many Long COVID Patients Are Having Suicidal Thoughts
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Why Voices of Lived Experience are Vital to Mental Health Professionals
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7 Children’s Books That Explain Tragedies, News, and Difficult Topics
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Racial disparities in mental health care: An explainer and research roundup

Link – Opioid epidemic linked to childhood emotional abuse: Study
Child abuse being a prime cause of the growing problem with opioid addiction didn’t surprise me, but the connection between emotional abuse more so than physical or sexual abuse did. On the other hand, there’s something to this idea: “If a person is being physically or sexually abused, it’s easier to put the blame on…
This Week’s Links (weekly)
Male Abuse Awareness Week Dec. 1-8, 2013 – CNN iReport tags: CA The Self-Stigma of Having Depression Never Goes Away tags: CA Wearing Your Weight As Armor tags: CA Men and Suicide: Breaking the Silence tags: CA The Aftermath of Trauma: Four Common Characteristics tags: CA Surviving The Great Holiday Depression tags: CA Survivors and…