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I feel like this is something that needs to be shouted for everyone in the back to hear. Whether you’re talking about exercise, certain eating habits, medication or whatever else we read about online as being the “cure” for depression. “Felipe Schuch, an associate professor of sports techniques and methods at Universidade Federal de Santa…
Sharing – How To Support Your Depressed Friend When You’re Depressed Too
As you know, I’ve been quick to share links and even write about what your depressed friends need, and how to help people struggling with their own mental health. What I’ve come to realize more and more is that I am also struggling, and failing at being a very good friend for many of these same reasons. I’m burned out, I’m tired, I have little mental energy beyond just getting through each workday, and taking care of myself, for reaching out, chatting, or virtually meeting up with people.
In short, I am experiencing exactly what Annie is talking about. I want to reach out and be supportive to my friends, but I haven’t recognized my own struggles. No, I don’t believe I am depressed in a major way, but I’m definitely suffering from anxiety, stress, and it’s exhausting me.
That makes it hard to be the supportive one in any relationship, even though I want to be.
To combat that, I’m going to be reviewing this article a few times, and thinking about how I might still be supportive, and how maybe people in my life be supportive of each other.
Sharing – Number of Americans Headed to ER for Suicidal Thoughts, Self-Harm Keeps Rising
This isn’t new information for regular readers around here, what April says in the article below is a problem that just keeps getting worse. “April Foreman, an executive committee member of the board of directors at the American Association of Suicidology and a suicide prevention coordinator at the VA Health System in Baton Rouge, La.,…
Sharing – Improving teen mental health with Lisa Damour
I needed the ability to go places on my own because I didn’t have the internet. Teens today have much less freedom to go places independently, so we should consider how to keep them connected to society if it’s not online.Â
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