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Link – Waiting longer for mental health care may help college students, report finds
This report seems totally out of sync with everything we know about mental health care, but maybe not so much. “It might have to do with the importance of consistent and stable therapy. While an access model gets students into care for a first appointment sooner, counselors often have too many patients and are unable…
Link – PODCAST: Mental Illness: To Disclose or Not to Disclose?
I’ve linked to a number of recent articles about whether it’s appropriate to disclose a mental health struggle or not, and to whom. This podcast episode is a frank discussion about the plusses and real-life consequences of those decisions. If you’re thinking about “going public”, you owe it to yourself to consider the things these…
The Benefits of Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs)
What do we have to offer those kids beyond a message about how their already-high ACE score likely means they have a lifetime of poor outcomes to look forward to? It turns out we have a lot to offer them. By creating positive experiences, we can start to undo the damage and create a preventative buffer to help avoid further adverse events.Â
What Kind of Story Does it Take To Get Serious About Connection and Mental Health?
The original news story is from 2013, and I admit I was unaware of it. On the other hand, there is something positive in seeing that something as tragic as this can spur activity and solutions in the Netherlands to deal with loneliness and the lack of social connection:
Sharing – Mental Illness Costs Lives, But Not How You Probably Expect
This is an interesting finding, because it may be surprising, but it also makes a lot of sense. “On average Danes diagnosed with mental illness – a third of the population – live 10 years less than everyone else. In The Lancet, McGrath reveals the detail behind that figure. “All types of mental disorders had higher…
