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Sharing – They need therapy — but are turning to A.I. instead
What would be beneficial is an adult conversation about establishing guardrails around AI tools to mitigate worst-case scenarios, while also planning ways to ensure that more people don’t have to rely on them for therapy because they have no other options.
Links I’m Sharing (weekly) June 28, 2020
4 Ways Writing Can Help with Recovery from Mental Illness Doomscrolling Is Slowly Eroding Your Mental Health Challenging the Negative Stories We Tell Ourselves ‘Bear Our Pain’: The Plea For More Black Mental Health Workers Child Sexual Abuse Survivors From Ethnic Minorities Reveal How Their Ordeals Were Ignored I was told ‘depression isn’t real’…
Shared Links (weekly) October 17, 2021
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6 ways to protect your mental health from social media’s dangers
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Here’s Why The Cowardly Victim-Blaming of Sexual Assault Survivors Must End
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Talk about mental health, says farmer who lost dad to suicide
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Here are 7 of the best psychology podcasts to boost your knowledge of the brain and human behavior
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Third Places Also Need to Be Safe
I think this is interesting. Of course, access to a park or walkable neighborhoods would lead to better mental health outcomes. At least that is what we’d expect. But for some young people, when that park or neighborhood isn’t safe, it might turn into yet another place to be hyperalert and anxious about.
Link – Mental Illness Is Far More Common Than We Knew – Scientific American Blog Network
Well this really changes things. What if I told you that “normal” actually is dealing with a mental health problem at some point in your life? “New research, from our lab and from others around the world, however, suggests mental illnesses are so common that almost everyone will develop at least one diagnosable mental disorder…
Sharing – A Shortage Of Mental Health Treatment Beds Can Trap Kids In Crisis Inside ERs
We have to have serious discussions about mental health resources, for adults and kids. This isn’t even about stigma or awareness, this is a system with fundamental flaws, that creates this lack of available, and affordable, resources. This is a society that is unable, and unwilling, to provide basic care for too many of its own members. Is that the society we want to live in? I hope not, but as long as we continue down a path where the best plan we can come up for a teenager struggling with suicidal thoughts is 17 days on a gurney, and sedated, inside of an ER, we are not that society.
