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Connection Matters – An Example
As I read this, I couldn’t help but compare it to the hundreds of stories where the opposite was true. People are so afraid of saying the wrong thing or so uncomfortable with the idea of mental health issues that they run the other way. They disconnect from someone who so desperately needs connection. Someone they love is feeling all that embarrassment and pain and no longer has anyone to connect to and remind them of their value, their humanness.
As the title of Elizabeth’s post says, we need each other.
Sharing – Coronavirus reveals everything that’s wrong with our mental health care system
The article below points out what some of us already knew even before this pandemic situation. Yes, there are lots of services out there doing what they can to provide tips for dealing with anxiety, and how to support one another, and the numbers you can call in a crisis. But, there’s desperate shortage of…
Reviews Elsewhere – The Inflamed Mind: A Radical New Approach to Depression
Tina Arnoldi’s review of Edward Bullmore’s book includes some interesting observations about the multiple possible causes of depression, and the multiple possible treatments. The book focuses on inflammation, but I think this paragraph is the way we should be looking at something like depression: Bullmore provides a thorough analysis of the latest research on how…
Sharing – How the Mental Health System Failed Me
Behavioral issues in school, getting in trouble, and wham! Instead of mental health care, you’re a criminal case. We do it to adults all the time, why would we not see it the same way with kids? Especially kids without the family means to get private care and assistance?
This is what we do, and we need to figure out something else. The criminal justice system is not mental health care.
Link – Understanding Recidivism Through Child Abuse and Mental Health
This makes sense. We know that child abuse increases the likelihood of not only mental health issues in adulthood, but also a lack of social skills and development. Those are exactly the kinds of things that leave people desperate enough to commit crime. Treating those things would assist in providing other options. In 2016, Chicago…