‘When it comes to mental health, all countries are developing countries’
Supporting a Family Member with Serious Mental Illness Is Harder Than It Should Be
Books Under Review: Summer 2022 – “Reviews of five recent books reflecting various perspectives on the mental health system.”
Unfortunately, many survivors do not get the result they were hoping for when they disclose their abuse to their closest friends and family, because the person on the other end of the conversation simply doesn’t know how to react. Here’s a few clues that might help you the next time: When a survivor opens up…
Linking in with my review of Robbie Garner’s Book Nobody Came, The Guardian has published a feature in its Weekend magazine section two years on from the start of the enquiry and thus updating anything you might have read in the Daily Mail’s story trail from the same post. You can view it below; Jersey…
Rick Belden was kind enough to comment on my post calling for contributors and let me know that he had posted a review of the film we have talked about here before, Boys and Men Healing. Rick does a great job of sharing what the film is about, and how it affected him as he…
After a decent 30 to 40 years of joking about prison rape, maybe the smallest turning point in the perception of the issue arrived today when the American section of British newspaper The Guardian ran a comment column about hackers getting extradited. Following complaints about the prison rape joke in the concluding paragraph, it was…
“According to some headlines on the Autism Speaks site, much of New York will light up in blue during the month in support. Red Bull Arena, Macy’s and Bloomingdales, and even the NYC sanitation trucks will aid in bringing awareness to this issue. In a show of solidarity, the Great Buddha of Hyogo in Kobe,…
This is the world we live in. Not one where teens would be fine if only they didn’t have social media, but one where teens take to social media to get information about mental health and other issues that they can’t talk to anyone else about. Getting rid of social media for minors will leave a void similar to the one I had growing up, where no one I knew talked about abuse or mental health issues, so I assumed I was the only one dealing with it.
That’s not a better world. I think a world where minors can access information provided by advocates who educate themselves about the facts and share their own lived experiences is invaluable. That’s what following these accounts can provide.
