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Link – Treating Teens’ Depression May Make Parents Happier, Too
The study doesn’t provide answers as to why parents mental health issues improve when the kids get treatment, but I think this makes a lot of sense: “Relationships are reciprocal,” says Laura Mufson, the associate director of the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia University, who was not involved in the study. “If…
Sharing – Stigma Keeps Us From Talking – Even To Each Other
I agree with what George says here about speaking out – Sometimes, when the others we’re concerned about include employers, spouses and children, it’s OK to exercise your right to just be quiet. At the end of the day, while we wish dealing with a mental health issue would be met with only love and…
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Sharing – Life-Changing Benefits of Self-Compassion
Child abuse can be all about shame and guilt. Because the entire world wants to believe that things are fair when we grow up, trying to square that belief with what happened to us as children naturally leads us to believe it’s our fault.
You can’t have self-compassion and also believe the abuse you suffered was your fault. We have to get past this idea that the world is fair and we get what we deserve. It’s simply not true. We have to be willing to have the same compassion for ourselves that we would have for another crime victim.
Everyone deserves to have some compassion for others and learn how to have compassion for themselves.
Link – How to Support Someone Who Has Experienced Trauma
Both the infographic and the linked article have some good information, and I love the thought about what it would look like if we could see the psychological wounds. “What would we do if we could see every psychological wound ever inflicted as a physical bruise? We would see a lot of black and…
