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Sharing – Why Everyone Is Listening to “Mental Health Playlists” This Year
Hmm, do you have a mental health playlist? After reading the article below I’m going to have to go see what Spotify thinks makes for a Wellness playlist for me looks like. It may not look exactly like the one in the article below, or what many other folks would put on their’s because well,…
Link – Why I’m Scared to Not Talk About Suicide
I’m not scared either, to admit that I have attempted suicide, that I spent years dealing with depression and destructive mental health issues. Because there are too many people dying. No. I’m not scared to talk about suicide — I’m scared to stay silent. Silence is what fuels my depression. Silence turns thoughts into obsessions…
Shared Links (weekly) April 4, 2021
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Ask a Black Therapist: 5 tips to support Black mental health during the Derek Chauvin trial
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A ground breaking campaign that changed the mental health landscape
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How to Save a Life – Suicidality is on the rise in 2021. Talking about it can change everything.
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Book of the Month March 2021 – A Tiny Spark of Hope: Healing Childhood Trauma
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I Use Everything in My Resilience Toolkit to Keep My Mental and Physical Health Intact.
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Review – The Best Minds by Jonathan Rosen
It will leave you asking more questions than it provides answers, but these are questions we should be asking.Â
Sharing – Current mental health support systems often fail to meet men’s needs.
In the mental health field, I would agree with the experts quoted in the article. We treat mental health and trauma recovery based on the symptoms shown most often by women, because it is most often women who are seeking help. We define the symptoms based on what we see in those women, which are not the symptoms that every woman would have, let alone others. Someone who is abusing a substance, dealing with anger, taking risks, etc., isn’t typically what we consider “depressed,” but that might be the reality.
