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Link – Childhood abuse prevalent among Canadian prisoners, but more research needed
As I’ve been writing in the past few days, this is another example of how childhood trauma is leading to bad outcomes as adults. This time from Canada. ““We have a health equity issue on our hands, and we need to talk about how to reduce rates of incarceration in the first place,” Bodkin said….
Sharing – Why Leisure Is Never a Waste of Time
I know it’s become cliché to talk about depression and anxiety as part of the response to COVID19, but that really ignores the fact that the rates were going up even before the pandemic. Why? I think our cultish belief in productivity, and “hustling” is a big part of that. If you can’t ever rest, and take a break from your to-do list, you’re going to struggle.
Sharing – Coronavirus, police violence boost risks of rising black youth suicide
In fact, the headline does not represent what is actually happening. Once upon a time, short-sighted commentators considered youth suicide mostly a “white problem”. The reason for that was that the rates for white youth were significantly higher than other groups, but this kind of increase shows just how short-sighted that was. “Calling black youth…
Link – Calling All Stigma Rebels!
There’s no doubt about this, the more people get used to seeing and hearing about mental health issues among their friends and people they follow on social media, the more likely they’ll see it as no big deal to actually talk about them. I’m in. And if you really want to be a Stigma Rebel,…
Sharing – Conspiracy theories are a mental health crisis
As a society, we have, rightfully, tried to move away from doing those things, but we haven’t really gotten better at helping people build resiliency. Is it any wonder that we had an epidemic of anxiety, even before COVID-19? We’ve kind of left people with an uncertain world, in which anything can just randomly happen to anyone, while leaving intact our belief systems that teach us that the world is fair.
It’s not. It’s not even close, and yes part of the reason it isn’t fair is that there are bad people in power doing bad things, but even if we could rid ourselves of that as much as possible, (and we should), the world would still be a random place where random things happen, for no good reason.
There would still be natural disasters, accidents, and yes, even abuse and crime. There would still be people with disabilities, mental and psychical, and there would still be victims. Because we’re human, and being human is kind of messy and random.
That’s not going anywhere. The challenge is to find the resiliency to live our lives anyway. This is where we’ve failed too many people, and where we have failed ourselves, finding comfort in false “explanations” instead of facing the hard truths.
Links I’m Sharing (weekly)
Child Suicide Attempts Are Skyrocketing in The US, And Nobody Knows Why Podcast: From Homeless to Prisoner to Olympian Really good message from @tonymhoffman about seeing people’s story instead of our biases. Child abuse survivor hopes story inspires others to step forward, seek help Mental health problems don’t end with age. Older people need help…
