From Panic to Peace: Practical Techniques for Coping with Trauma-Related Panic Attacks
End the Silence: Ask for Help with Mental Health with Thom Singer
Why We Need to Keep Writing (and Reading) about Mental Health
Goodbye, Perfect: How to Stop Pleasing, Proving, and Pushing for Others… and Live For Yourself
Healing from Within: Empowering Steps on the Journey to Overcoming Depression
It looks like my post last week about all of the mental health books being listed out on May 1 missed this list. This list is not exclusively books about mental health, but includes quite a few, and also lists out some other books that they recommend as helpful for dealing with chaotic and stressful…
I hope those who work in the field are thinking the way Aaron is: “Rather than seeing this as a stop-gap until psychotherapy can return to the status quo, therapists should instead see it as an opportunity to rethink the delivery of psychological services all together.” Most of what we consider “therapy” has been around…
I know it’s become cliché to talk about depression and anxiety as part of the response to COVID19, but that really ignores the fact that the rates were going up even before the pandemic. Why? I think our cultish belief in productivity, and “hustling” is a big part of that. If you can’t ever rest, and take a break from your to-do list, you’re going to struggle.
What I’m really thinking: the online child abuse detective tags: CA ChildAbuse The Child Is Always the Victim – Yes, Even If He’s a Boy – tags: CA ChildAbuse Child abuse is a men’s health issue tags: CA ChildAbuse Elizabeth Smart: Cultural Obsession With Purity Makes Rape Victims Feel “Worthless” tags: CA ChildAbuse Is Depression…
This is such an important caveat. Depression Support Groups are Helpful When They’re Good I attended a support group for abuse survivors for a short time, and it was a very bad experience for me. (I won’t get into details here, but mixing in one male survivor with a group of female survivors who had…
Unless you live with post-traumatic stress disorder, it can be hard to understand why an event from the past can still affect someone now. You may wonder why they just can’t “forget about it,” or get confused when seemingly low-stress situations evoke a strong reaction. But for people with post-traumatic stress disorder, their brain actually…
