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Shared Links (weekly) October 31, 2021
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Kurtis Gabriel, his fight with mental health, and why talking about it matters
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Marginalized Mental Health Matters: What Experts Want You to Know
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Understaffed State Psychiatric Facilities Leave Mental Health Patients in Limbo
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How stigma prevents people from accessing mental health care and what can be done about it
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Suicide Prevention Is a Million Caring Acts Far Before Crisis Intervention
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Reviews Elsewhere – Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me
Found this review from Louise Bradley on the Mental Health Commission of Canada website and thought the book by Anna Mehler Paperny might be of interest to readers here as well. In her words: Paperny is a journalist. She also lives with treatment resistant depression. Her book could be summed up in three words: know…
Link – Americans more open about mental health issues, but stigma lingers
This is good: The survey, of more than 3,000 U.S. adults, found that 70 percent said they feel people are more open to discussing mental health compared with a decade ago. Most respondents also said they’d want to help a family member or friend struggling with depression or other mental health conditions. Awesome news! They…
Sharing – What life in Denmark shows about the power of emotional safety
If you read the article, you’ll learn that this sense of ease is not just about feeling confident or resilient. It’s about purposefully building a society, schools, workplaces, and public spaces that allow people to breathe and relax. There’s a stillness that comes from feeling safe, allowing human beings to thrive instead of living a life of fear.
Childhood Trauma and Adult Mental Health Issues – It’s not That Simple
That’s the take-away from this more recent study. We cannot point to childhood trauma as the explanation for all mental health issues in adulthood. Sometimes, it is a contributing factor. Sometimes, it isn’t. Mental Health is much more complicated. There is no simple explanation for why it happens, and there’s no simple explanation for why it’s been getting worse. Beware those who want to paint all mental health issues with the same brush. Human beings are a bit more complicated than that.
