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We have to have serious discussions about mental health resources, for adults and kids. This isn’t even about stigma or awareness, this is a system with fundamental flaws, that creates this lack of available, and affordable, resources. This is a society that is unable, and unwilling, to provide basic care for too many of its own members. Is that the society we want to live in? I hope not, but as long as we continue down a path where the best plan we can come up for a teenager struggling with suicidal thoughts is 17 days on a gurney, and sedated, inside of an ER, we are not that society.Â
Reviews Elsewhere – Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermining America
Came upon this review from the Mental Health at Home blog, and something about it really hit home with me. I think in the survivor, and mental health, communities we have a real problem, and that problem has to do with how many people have this very strange way of defining “thinking positively”. So when…
When it Comes to Mental Health Finances Matter
What we see there is that mental health problems can create debt. When we cannot work, our healthcare costs skyrocket, and we can find ourselves in a poor financial situation. That poor financial situation creates more stress and emotional labor, contributing to mental health issues.
Whether the mental health problem or financial struggle came first doesn’t matter. Once we are in the cycle, it will continue round and round.
That’s what cycles do.
Shared Links (weekly) June 12, 2022
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Should you feel compassion for prisoners?– what if I told you that maybe 72% of people in jail have diagnosable and long untreated, mental health disorders?
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Live, laugh, lava: Yellowstone offers respite for teens struggling with mental health
