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Sharing – What American Mental Health Care Is Missing
We actually know the things that can offer hope, we just don’t have a system that can deliver them. Our system is broken, the medical community can offer medicine and some limited treatment options but the day-to-day support and the work to reach a state of something more than symptom reduction doesn’t actually exist for most people.
This has to change. Go read more of what he has to say, I think for many of you it will seem familiar, but maybe provide some hope that we are not alone in seeing it.
Now if we can just find enough of us to care enough to fix it. We should all want to, mental health issues will happen to someone we all know and care about, eventually. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to offer a system that does not involve homelessness and prison time for far too many?
Link – Male mental health: Why we need to talk about the boys
These are, indeed, sobering statistics coming out of the UK: “The latest research indicates that one in eight children now has a diagnosable mental health disorder — up from one in 10 in 2004. But these are just the reported cases. Suicide is the biggest killer of men under the age of 45. Today, that…
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Podcast: Sexual Abuse: The Last Stage in Recovery Workplace mental health: how to be caring, not just compliant Sexual abuse survivors rally across Japan calling for law reform How to Talk to Someone with Depression The Men’s Mental Health Double-Bind “On the one hand, men are being told to talk more and open-up; on the…
Link – Rehab Industry Marketing Needs Federal Oversight, Regulation
Dr. Grohol has a lot to say about misleading advertising, and other practices within the addiction treatment industry. We know there are some sketchy advertising practices, and we know there are even some sketchy treatment being given to people dealing with addiction, let alone the mental health treatment many of them also need. Sadly, when…
Sharing – How Does Sleep Affect Your Mental Health?
In short, lack of sleep = some increased likelihood of depression and anxiety, impaired function, and an inability to learn new things. We often hear about how the sharp rise in these things coincides with the rise of technology in our day to day lives, especially the smartphone, but I don’t think it’s quite that…