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Why Asking For Help With Our Mental Health Isn’t A Sign Of Weakness. Suicide Rates Are the Highest They’ve Been Since WWII Boys and Sexual Abuse: The Untold Stories of Trauma How Writing About Mental Health Makes a Difference U.S. Youth Suicide Rate Reaches 20-Year High We are failing is so many ways when it…
Why Suicide Prevention Week Is Important for Child Abuse Survivors
I’ve survived both childhood abuse, and a suicide attempt. I know what it feels like to believe that it will never get better, just as much as I know that it can get better because it has.
Truthfully, you are a survivor, and the world needs you and your story. How else will the other survivors around you know what is possible?
Sharing – We Should Be Careful Before Celebrating the Suicide Rate Decrease
The truth is we’ve all been living through one of the most uncertain, and terrible, times that many of us have ever experienced, all at the same time. Saying that you’ve been struggling with all of it doesn’t really raise any eyebrows, we all nod in agreement and share our own struggles. The stigma, the isolation, the fear of talking about it, is gone.
But, what happens when it’s no longer a pandemic, and someone is still struggling? Does the stigma come back? Do the “what do you have to be depressed about?” questions start back up, does the fear of not belonging, of not being enough, come back?
Sharing – Compassion Fatigue: When Counselors and Other Helpers Don’t Make Time for Self-Care
This is true for anyone working in the field of mental health, or crisis intervention, and it’s also true of advocates. I’ve seen it too many times: “While compassion fatigue can happen when helpers are unable to replenish and restore emotionally and physically (Figley, 1982), vicarious trauma is the shift you experience mentally from…
