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Sharing – Create Your Mental Health Crisis Plan For A Better Recovery Response
As the article below points out, you create a plan so that everyone involved knows what to do in a crisis. Because when you’re in a mental health crisis, that is not the time to develop a cohesive plan and make the best decisions.
Do that ahead of time. Share the plan. Identify the people you trust to act on your behalf, and let the plan be your guide in what to do. It is in everyone’s best interest.
Link – Sep. 25 – Live Through This: Using True Stories to Help Stop Suicide
This seems like it could be an interesting webinar for some of my readers, so I’m sharing it: “Join Dese’Rae L. Stage, photographer, writer, suicide awareness activist, and the creator behind the groundbreaking project Live Through This in a free one-hour Webinar to discuss the many faces of suicide, in order to decrease stigma and…
Links I’m Sharing (weekly) – May 17, 2020
Be Generous For Free! Could COVID-19 Finally Destigmatize Mental Illness? Preventing suicide in men Why don’t doctors seek mental health treatment? They’ll be punished for it. Want to Stem the Rising Mental Health Crisis? Look Beyond the Usual Suspects for Help A Tribute to My Colleagues and All Those Working in Mental Health Posted from…
Link – How Emotional Abuse as a Child Made It Hard for Me to ‘Take Up Space’
This was a really interesting read to me, because I have always been of the belief that one of the worst things about growing up in an abusive situation is that you don’t ever really see yourself in a realistic way. I’ve always talked specifically about how surviving physical and/or sexual abuse is a full…
Link – Asian American Mental Health and the ‘Model Minority’ Myth
Depression does not care what your ethnic background or culture is. It does not discriminate. Based on data from www.MHAScreening.org, we know that Asian Americans are least likely to have a history of diagnosis even though 57% of those who completed a mental health screen scored moderately to severely depressed. Asian Americans are also three…
