Shared Links (weekly) Sept. 10, 2023
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World Suicide Prevention Day (10 September 2023): Creating Hope Through Action
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What to Talk About in Therapy: Ideas to Get You Started– If you’ve never been, where do you start? What is expected of you?
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We have done a good job of removing the stigma of getting help for things like anxiety, depression, ADHD, and multiple other symptoms of mental health issues. We haven’t done enough to make it acceptable for people to talk about the trauma they’ve suffered. Until we do that, and until we recognize that we all have experienced various levels of trauma, we’re going to continue to have a growing mental health crisis on our hands.
Sharing – How To Help And Support Someone With Anxiety
This is a lot of people. “Forty million. That’s roughly how many people in the U.S. have an anxiety disorder; about 18% of the population. So chances are, you know someone (or are someone) who experiences anxiety.” Let’s face it, even if you don’t know anyone who has a diagnosed anxiety disorder, it’s highly likely…
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How often, as children, did we decide to “fly under the radar” and not draw attention to something that brought us happiness because that just created a target? How many of us, as adults, still live with the fear that identifying something that makes us happy only invites someone to hurt us by taking it away? Even when there is no one there to take it, we live with that fear and don’t get too attached to anything.
My hope for all of us is to find a safe place to overcome that and enjoy the things that make us happy.
Shared Links (weekly) July 17, 2022
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What to Say, and Not to Say, to Someone Who’s Grieving – We don’t deal with grief well, we haven’t learned how to handle it for ourselves, let alone someone else. It’s time to learn.
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Researchers surprised to find seven adult health conditions linked to childhood abuse
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Taking a mental health day can be good for you – here’s how to make the most of one
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Call 988: New suicide hotline can help as mental health crisis worsens
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R. Kelly Sentencing: Being Abused Is Not an Excuse to Abuse Others
Link – Release of “13 Reasons Why” Associated with Increase in Youth Suicide Rates
It’s important to note that we cannot know for sure that there is a causal relationship between these two events, and the NIMH admits that as well, but that is in part due to the fact that we never really know what causes any individual case of suicide. What we do know, though, is that…
