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Links I’m Sharing (weekly) – May 31, 2020
Google Partners with NAMI To Create an Anxiety-Disorder Self-Assessment The Dangers of Well-Meaning Mental Health Advice We asked how to prevent suicides caused by the pandemic. This is what experts told us Helping Child Abuse Victims During COVID-19 To Kill The Culture of Silence Surrounding Male Sexual Abuse We Need the Voices of Male Advocates 36…
Community Health Care Resources That Don’t Exist
As societies, we don’t care enough to do the hard work required to change it. If we cared, we wouldn’t have years and years of stories like this. We wouldn’t have millions of people having to choose between eating and their mental health or being dumped into a system that offers no help.
But we do, and very few leaders are even talking about making the massive investments necessary to overhaul the system.
Because we don’t care.
Link – Release of “13 Reasons Why” Associated with Increase in Youth Suicide Rates
It’s important to note that we cannot know for sure that there is a causal relationship between these two events, and the NIMH admits that as well, but that is in part due to the fact that we never really know what causes any individual case of suicide. What we do know, though, is that…
Connection Matters – An Example
As I read this, I couldn’t help but compare it to the hundreds of stories where the opposite was true. People are so afraid of saying the wrong thing or so uncomfortable with the idea of mental health issues that they run the other way. They disconnect from someone who so desperately needs connection. Someone they love is feeling all that embarrassment and pain and no longer has anyone to connect to and remind them of their value, their humanness.
As the title of Elizabeth’s post says, we need each other.
