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Sharing – How To Help De-Escalate Bad Situations When You’re In Public
I think we can agree that having a manic episode in public shouldn’t mean you can be killed. We’d like to think we would be better than that but faced with an uncomfortable situation that is exactly what happened. Probably because no one on that subway expected that the possibility existed and hadn’t considered how they would act and how it might help until it was too late. The article linked below offers some good advice for how to both keep yourself safe and also de-escalate the situation. Which is what should happen if at all possible. Escalating the situation rarely ends well. Someone died in this case. Let’s do what we can to prevent escalation so that no one has to get hurt.
John Oliver Takes a Look at Mental Health Care in the US
I wanted to share this with you because John Oliver makes some important points about how we have made so many strides in acceptance and encouraging people that it is OK to ask for help, and then the system doesn’t provide it. Sadly things have gotten so bad that we’re trying just about anything, and even the technology isn’t living up to the hype.
Real people with real needs are left with nowhere to turn. A society that claims to care about people cannot accept that status quo.
Shared Links (weekly) Nov. 3, 2024
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Child Sexual Abuse and Incest – 8 Myths and The Facts Mental Health Should Matter as Much as Physical Health How I Cope with My Partner’s Mental Illness Suicide Contagion Or “Copycat Suicides” Are A Public Health Issue, & Approaching The Issue With Nuance Is Important Podcast: How to Reduce the Stress of Social Media…
Link – Mental Health Hospitalization Stigma: Remember Your Worth
Frankly, I’m sharing Megan’s article because I think there’s a good chance you, or someone you know, needs to hear exactly what she says here: “My husband is one hundred percent worth the struggles we face. Right now, he doesn’t feel like he is worth anything. He feels more like a burden than an asset…
Reviews Elsewhere – Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermining America
Came upon this review from the Mental Health at Home blog, and something about it really hit home with me. I think in the survivor, and mental health, communities we have a real problem, and that problem has to do with how many people have this very strange way of defining “thinking positively”. So when…
