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Sharing – 15 Books for Effectively Coping During COVID—Or Any Chaotic Time
It looks like my post last week about all of the mental health books being listed out on May 1 missed this list. This list is not exclusively books about mental health, but includes quite a few, and also lists out some other books that they recommend as helpful for dealing with chaotic and stressful…
Sharing – Affordable treatment for mental illness and substance abuse gets harder to find
These two facts are hard to explain. “Spending for all types of substance abuse treatment was just 0.9 percent of total health-care spending in 2017. Mental health treatment accounted for 2.4 percent of total spending. In 2017, 70,237 Americans died of drug overdoses, and 47,173 from suicide, according to the Centers for Disease Control and…
Shared Links (weekly) May 2, 2021
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Suicide prevention groups urge lawmakers to stop attacking on trans kids
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Mental health TikTok is vast and daunting. Here are 5 actually helpful accounts to follow
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Society ‘must urgently face up to the reality’ of sexual abuse of children by children
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Bystander Intervention Online. If you see harassment happening online
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What It Really Means to Take Care of Yourself
– Real self-care isn’t massages and green juices; it’s choosing to create a life that you don’t feel the need to regularly check out of.
Sharing – ‘Bedlam’ Documentary Shows State of Mental Health Care in Los Angeles
The documentary will air on PBS in April. Obviously, it will be focused on Los Angeles, a place where this problem is especially acute, but one that we might see play out, at a smaller scale, anywhere. It’s an important topic that people still don’t quite get until it’s someone in their family, or that…
Links I’m Sharing (weekly)
‘They travel hours to see a doctor for a minute’: India’s mental health crisis Millions Of Americans Battle Major Depression But Don’t Get The Help They Need ‘We have no solution’: Grim state of Oregon mental health system laid bare in court Santa Rethinks ‘Naughty or Nice’ in W+K’s Remarkable Mental Health Ad Self Care…
