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Shared Links (weekly) October 24, 2021
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We know kids are struggling with their mental health. Here’s how you can help
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Should students take mental health days? How should they be used?
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What Is Toxic Positivity, and How Can It Harm Your Mental Health?
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Tim Ferriss on How He Survived Suicidal Depression and His Tools for Warding Off the Darkness
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News avoidance during the COVID-19 pandemic is associated with better mental well-being
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Link – The Double Standard of Mental Illness
This is something we should all take a minute and think about: If a family member walked into your living room, bent over in pain and screaming for help, what would you do? You would help, of course. And generally, you’d know what to do. If you saw blood, you’d try to stop it. If…
More Proof That Early Interventions Are Key
So, when I see a study like this, I don’t feel defeated, I don’t feel like we are all just broken and doomed to poorer outcomes. I see the possibility that there is room to change this current reality, but it’s going to take changing how we deal with childhood adversity and doing it in an open, honest, and immediate way.
High levels of childhood adversity don’t have to be an early death sentence. We can, and should, intervene early in order to prevent many of these outcomes. We just need the determination and will to make it happen.
Do we have that?
Link – Many With Depression Delay, Avoid Treatment
We have to do better than this: Only one-third of people newly diagnosed with depression start treatment quickly, and seniors and minorities are the least likely to get help in a timely fashion, a new study finds. The post goes on to cite stigma and a lack of availability as two of the big reasons…
