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Link – What Appears to Be Mental Health Stigma Might Be Self-Care
Before you go judging your friends and/or family for not reacting to you the way you want them to, it might make sense to think of this little snippet from Laura Barton’s article (link below): “Then a few years ago, another friend stopped talking to me because he said I was too negative. I’ve always thought…
Shared Links (weekly) Sept. 26, 2021
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The Pandemic Has Hurt Men’s Mental Health. Other Men Can Help
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10 Mental Health Podcasts That Will Help You Feel Seen (and Teach You Something, Too)
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You are not alone: How to raise awareness during suicide prevention month
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Colleges expand mental health services for students
– It’s nice to see a report on increasing services somewhere.
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How to Respond to ‘Toxic Positivity’ Mindsets: 5 Things You Can Say
Link – Why it’s SO important to check in on your friends and let them know you care
I used to think that checking up on someone made me seem overbearing, or like someone’s worried mom. Having grown up with a mom who was constantly worried about everything and always causing me to roll my eyes at her overprotective nature, I balked at coming across that way to my peers. Then, I dealt with…
Link – Mental Illness: What’s Missing From Anti-Stigma Campaigns
I think Emilie may be on to something with this. With the over representation of some mental disorder and the under representation of other mental disorders, there seems to be ‘’socially acceptable’’ mental health issues (even though there is still a long way to go) and less ‘’socially acceptable’’ mental health issues. Sometimes the less…
Why do we get Stressed About Replying Quickly?
My first thought, obviously, was about the workplace and the culture we have created there that rewards being “always-on” but I think so much of this pressure permeates beyond work. As technology has become commonplace we all live with this pressure and this expectation. Think about it, how many times in a given week are you apologizing to friends and family because you couldn’t get back to them right away?
I do it all the time.
Heck, I’ve gotten text messages while having lunch or dinner with a friend, catching up with someone I haven’t gotten to see much for the last couple of years, and then apologized for doing that and being unavailable. Why? That makes no sense but we live in a culture where being connected to technology all the time also means that we should be responsive all the time. Or at least we feel like we should. Frankly, that’s a lot of pressure.
Sharing – Landmark research reveals ‘horrific’ mental health crisis facing Australian truck drivers
I’m glad to see people in Australia starting to understand this bit of reality: “”This is about the whole industry stepping up and saying we’ve got a major problem and we need to address this,” Mr Benson said. “The economic reality is we won’t actually have people to drive our trucks or to work in…
