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Link – Suffering in Silence: Men’s Mental Health in America Today
“I joke because, sometimes, I don’t know what else to do. Of course, the stigma against men’s mental health is not funny. When you are told that it is not appropriate to talk about your feelings, when you have limits placed on what is okay and what isn’t okay to talk about, when you are…
Sharing – If You Want to Build Community, You Have to “Waste Time” with People
The pity is that I prioritize this so little in my personal life. I’m constantly trying to “squeeze” in time with friends between work and other interests, and then wondering why my sense of personal community seems so lost. I think what Dr. Murthy talks about is part of it. I don’t think about time in this way. I’m always trying to maximize the time I spend with people, instead of just being with them.
The irony, of course, is how often I write about the best way to help people struggling with healing and mental health issues – just be with them. Yet, I don’t seem to realize how important it is to just be with our people regardless of what’s going on in their lives.
Sharing – How AI ‘therapists’ and machine learning could be the answer to affordable mental health care
I know I have written and linked to pieces about this before, but I really like the way this article not only talks about some of the things we are barely scratching the surface of at this time, but also explains in these two paragraphs why it’s so important to develop these kinds of tools….
Overcoming Childhood and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
I caught an interesting, short podcast episode on this topic recently. The host, Dave Fraser is joined by Psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb to discuss the question of whether we can overcome our childhoods.
It’s an interesting episode, and I think many of you might learn a thing or two about how the stories we’ve been told about ourselves in childhood can be rewritten and how a good therapist might assist in that. You can get the links and notes from the show here:
Shared Links (weekly) Dec. 19, 2021
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A Wayfair sex trafficking lie pushed by QAnon hurt real kids– It may be behind a paywall, but this is a good story describing how the lie hurt real people and continues to hurt real people.
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10 Realistic Ways To Set Boundaries With Others During The Holidays
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Mental Health Care is Hard to Come By, Especially If You’re Poor
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Can depression worsen Covid-19 and other infections? And can a virus make you depressed?
