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Community Health Care Resources That Don’t Exist
As societies, we don’t care enough to do the hard work required to change it. If we cared, we wouldn’t have years and years of stories like this. We wouldn’t have millions of people having to choose between eating and their mental health or being dumped into a system that offers no help.Â
But we do, and very few leaders are even talking about making the massive investments necessary to overhaul the system.Â
Because we don’t care.Â
Sharing – Positive Childhood Experiences Protect Against Depression in Teens
I have often said the best defense against childhood sexual abuse is raising kids who have open, supportive adults in their lives because they aren’t as vulnerable and easily manipulated. It turns out that those same relationships are also improving their mental well-being. Let’s do more of that.
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Linked: Barrier To Performance: Why We Need To Talk About Mental Health At Work Why It’s So Hard to Care for Ourselves 5 ways talking about mental health changed my life Homelessness stigma stops people accessing healthcare even when housed Misunderstandings of Mental Illness Cost Qualified People Their Jobs The Powerful Online Discussion on Reddit…
Sharing – Self-help resources can encourage victim-blaming of individuals with depression, study finds
There’s no language in this belief system for “some other person decided to hurt you for no reason at all and it had nothing to do with you”. There can’t be any language for that, because the entire system is self-centered.
The world isn’t. So please stop telling people who have suffered real harm that it’s all just lessons to learn, that simply excuses away harmful behavior, provides overly simple “fixes” for mental health issues, and places the blame for it square on the victim. That’s no way to support anyone.
The Other Mental Health Crisis – Older Men
I don’t think we are on a path to create that world. I think a world where human beings are valued based on how much money they make and how “strong” they are does not even care if older men are lost. They feel like a burden because society treats them like one. How much could they contribute to our community if we didn’t think that way? If we had a community that involved them instead of isolating them, and a healthcare system that didn’t cause people to go bankrupt because they grew old and became sick, perhaps we’d find out.Â
