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Link – Guest Post by Storyteller Paul Currington
This is some serious truth from someone who’s been there: That’s the insidious nature of depression. When you’re deep in it, all the lies you tell yourself make perfect sense. I call it The Calculus of Despair. No rational argument or past experience can make you believe otherwise. You can have a wall full of…
Sharing – National Well-Being Before and During the Pandemic
When I compare my personal experience to the overall statistics, again I can see where it is also kind of all over the place, because it’s individual. In some ways, I’m doing pretty well, in others, not so much. None of us are exactly the same, or living with the same circumstances. So as global as this pandemic is, the effects have been incredibly diverse. That person you are working with on a Zoom call, the medical professional, the person taking your to-go order, that teacher your kid is learning from, or even those kids and their parents are all dealing with any multitude of impacts that we know nothing about, and probably never will. The one thing we do know, is that they are being impacted.Â
We would do well, as a society to take advantage of this very obvious opportunity to learn that we are all impacted in different way by events, and to take the time to listen to how someone who isn’t like us, is impacted. This is a great time to understand the large scale of the world and all of the different experiences within it. Maybe we could at least settle for understanding that our own individual situations, are not representative of everyone. Not even close, in fact.Â
Sharing – Memories of childhood trauma may shift depending on current relationships
Think of it this way, we don’t ask trauma survivors to try healing from their trauma when their current situation is unsafe. That would be silly. We get them into a safe situation first, before they can even begin to heal. The same goes here. Kids who are safe and feel secure in their parents’ love and support look forward beyond the trauma.Â
Kids who are unsafe and not secure in the love and support of parents relive their trauma on a daily basis. It’s no wonder they are slightly more likely to immediately think of it when surveyed.Â
Shared Links (weekly) May 2, 2021
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Suicide prevention groups urge lawmakers to stop attacking on trans kids
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Mental health TikTok is vast and daunting. Here are 5 actually helpful accounts to follow
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Society ‘must urgently face up to the reality’ of sexual abuse of children by children
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Bystander Intervention Online. If you see harassment happening online
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What It Really Means to Take Care of Yourself
– Real self-care isn’t massages and green juices; it’s choosing to create a life that you don’t feel the need to regularly check out of.
