Shared Links (weekly) Nov. 17, 2024
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Link – What Appears to Be Mental Health Stigma Might Be Self-Care
Before you go judging your friends and/or family for not reacting to you the way you want them to, it might make sense to think of this little snippet from Laura Barton’s article (link below): “Then a few years ago, another friend stopped talking to me because he said I was too negative. I’ve always thought…
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A Rare Story of Survival – At 13, Alicia Kozak was lured from home by an internet predator. At 14 she decided she would use her story to educate and help others Podcast: Male Survivors of Sexual Assault and Abuse Being Ashamed of Our Shame We Need To Pay Better Attention To Loved Ones’ Mental…
Sharing – Five tips on setting boundaries for your mental health
The other thing to keep in mind is that no one else is going to set the boundaries for you that you need. They will set the boundaries that they want for you. That includes family, friends, and employers. They won’t know the limits of your mental health, and they may not even care about them. Some will, but you still need to draw them yourself and then communicate them.
And, maybe. most of all, allow everyone to set their boundaries and respect them. Maybe we could all get some improved mental health if we all understood that a little bit better.
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…
Shared Links (weekly) Nov. 13, 2022
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Media overload is hurting our mental health. Here are ways to manage headline stress
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Childhood traumas strongly impact both mental and physical health
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Do You Always Need Background Noise? There’s A Psychological Reason Why.– Guilty of doing this for healthy reasons and unhealthy ones.
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Common mental health inequalities across racialised groups: the gaps are getting bigger
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Go Gently – “Whatever you’re going through, remember this: The best way to face uncertain times is with gentleness. With yourself, with your loved ones, and with others.”
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Being Sad All the Time Is Too Much of a Burden – “Know that you will get through this.”
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Sharing – Belief in a Fair Economy Linked to Greater Mental Health Stigma, Study Finds
This makes sense. If you believe that society is ultimately fair, then poverty is a personal shortcoming rather than a failure of the system. If being poor is a personal shortcoming, the mental health impacts of living in poverty must also be your own responsibility to be dealt with, not a source of sympathy.Â
