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Shared Links (weekly) March, 12 2023
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How One Radio Station’s Focus On Mental Health Helped Listeners Around The World Feel Less Alone
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What is trauma bonding? Signs and how to break a trauma bond
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Why Young People Are Languishing– there are many reasons, and it’s complicated. It’s also a serious problem.
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Link – When Your Friends Don’t Understand Your Mental Illness
This is hard to accept, but it’s something that I suspect many of us have had to learn. Certain people do not know how to react to mental illness. They judge, they fear, they believe stigmas and would like to put everything in a box to make sense of the world around them. They don’t…
Sharing – Who Gets to Be Mentally Ill?
So, someone like me, a middle-aged, professional, white male, can talk about struggling and get encouragement, pointed to good resources that are affordable for me, and there’s hope that I’ll get better. Someone living near poverty will say the same thing, and we start looking at whether they should have their kids removed from the home or how we can keep them away from a “safe” society.
It gets worse if they are not white and/or have a more serious mental health issue.
That’s not right. Everyone deserves quality mental health care. We shouldn’t divide who gets the care and who doesn’t based on what kind of mental health issue they have or who they are. That’s no way to solve this issue.
Link – Stigma and Sharing About Mental Health Online
Seriously? “There’s this idea that people only share things to garner attention, especially when said things are controversial or outside the norm of what most people share. Stories of mental illness tend to fall into the latter category, and some people balk at the idea. They say there’s no other reason to share but to try…
Sharing – Positive Childhood Experiences Protect Against Depression in Teens
I have often said the best defense against childhood sexual abuse is raising kids who have open, supportive adults in their lives because they aren’t as vulnerable and easily manipulated. It turns out that those same relationships are also improving their mental well-being. Let’s do more of that.
