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Link – Effective Messages to Fight Stigma
This is why, if you can, its important to tell your story. Researchers, led by Emma McGinty, Ph.D., M.S., with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, looked at the effectiveness of various communication strategies in reducing stigma and increasing public support for mental health policies. They found that communication strategies using personal…
Sharing – The State With the Highest Suicide Rate Desperately Needs Shrinks
This, in a nutshell, is an example of the problem we face. “Since its grand opening in 2002, this unit—the only place in eastern Montana where a person with a mental health emergency can be admitted for inpatient care—has languished in a state of desertion more often than not. The problem isn’t a lack…
Reviews Elsewhere – Capable: How to Teach Your Kids the Strengths, Skills, and Strategies to Build Resilience
Resilience comes from the confidence that, even if things go horribly wrong, you’ll still be here, moving on. What I think young people are missing today is examples of that. One, because we don’t like to talk about the 100 times we struggled with something before figuring it out, but also because we live in a society that mocks people who try and fail at anything. When we go online, how often do we see the perfect finished product rather than the failures someone lived through to get there? And, even if someone shows the failures, how often is the comments section filled with mockery?Â
It’s no wonder the thing young adults struggle with more than anything is perfectionism. We’ve created a world that expects it.Â
Sharing – When You Say Nothing At All
Dr. Strait reminds us that while it’s normal to want to “fix” the pain of people we care about, it’s much more important to simply be there, without fixing it. Then offers up this advice: “How do we make our presence known, particularly from afar? If circumstances warrant at least a few words, make the…
Sharing – Mental health ‘warmlines’: Not hotlines, they help before a crisis
This seems like a pretty decent idea, but I have some reservations. What do you think about this idea? Unlike a hotline for those in immediate crisis, warmlines provide early intervention with emotional support that can prevent a crisis – and a more costly 911 call or ER visit. The lines are typically free, confidential…
