The Pandemic Has Hurt Men’s Mental Health. Other Men Can Help
10 Mental Health Podcasts That Will Help You Feel Seen (and Teach You Something, Too)
You are not alone: How to raise awareness during suicide prevention month
Colleges expand mental health services for students
– It’s nice to see a report on increasing services somewhere.
How to Respond to ‘Toxic Positivity’ Mindsets: 5 Things You Can Say
I think the statistics coming from the text service in the UK are interesting. In the 10 months since Shout launched as the UK’s first 24/7, free and confidential crisis text service, our trained volunteers have had 250,000 conversations. Around 18,000 of these have been with children under 13. Suicide is the main issue that…
Germanwings coverage is a kick in the teeth for mental health sufferers tags: CA Depression 5 Ways to Love Your Depressed Friend tags: Depression CA Why I am not brave to talk about depression tags: CA Depression Developing Hope in PTSD Recovery tags: CA ChildAbuse 6 Reasons Why Sexual Predators Target Churches tags: CA ChildAbuse…
This study out of Australia confirms something I’ve written about many times in regards to things like the ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) study: While the study reaffirmed that people who had adverse and unpredictable early life experiences had elevated symptoms of poor mental health (including depression and paranoia), it also found that children who grew…
This is part of the connection we need for our mental health. It’s not clear that AI tools can provide this. It’s not human. It’s the illusion of connection when our humanity deserves the real thing. AI can supplement; it is always available and provides access to a wealth of information, but it can’t provide a real human connection.
I find Erin’s story interesting because I think it is easy to look at a teenager, especially one who’s not exhibiting the signs we saw on the TV news story about teenagers and drugs/depression, and assume “it’s just a phase”. It might not be: “I clung to the idea that mental illness came for other…
