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Sharing – Why resilience won’t solve the mental health crisis among young people

ByMikeM January 11, 2025January 11, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

This pretty much sums up the problem we have with mental health right now.

A focus on resilience risks shifting responsibility for mental health onto those affected, rather than calling out factors contributing to poor mental health.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/why-resilience-won-t-solve-171327586.html

I’ve said it before and I’ll keep repeating it until everyone gets it. Exercise, meditation, resilience, and emotional intelligence are great things to do for our mental health. Still, they will never raise someone out of poverty, eliminate oppression, sexism, racism, etc., or clean up pollution and eliminate climate disasters. We cannot teach kids to be more resilient and do nothing to minimize the amount of trauma they are dealing with every day.

But that’s precisely what we are doing by refusing to address the things our kids live through.

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Sharing – What is… the just world fallacy
ByMikeM November 2, 2019November 1, 2019 Reading Time: 1 minute

This is such an important concept for survivors to understand, because we deal with so much shame around this idea: Do you think we live in a fair world where good things happen to good people and bad things only happen to bad people? Whether you believe this on a conscious level or not, chances…

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Link – Disconnection in Depression: Signs and Tips to Reconnect
ByMikeM May 7, 2018May 13, 2022 Reading Time: 1 minute

This is an interesting topic to me. One of the things I keep an eye out for on a regular basis is when I feel disconnected, knowing that it’s a sign that I may be headed for depression if I don’t take the steps that I have learned over the years help me avoid that….

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Sharing – Teen suicide is on the rise. So I talked to teens who attempted suicide.
ByMikeM November 8, 2019November 8, 2019 Reading Time: 1 minute

Read the whole thing, because there’s a lot to consider but I really wanted to highlght these two paragraphs. Sometimes, people who aren’t familiar with caring for teenagers at risk of suicide worry that there is nothing they can do to help if a teen is determined to die. Resoundingly, teenagers expressed just the opposite….

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What I’m Sharing for Survivors (weekly)
ByMikeM April 26, 2015December 20, 2020 Reading Time: 1 minute

Survivor Of Abuse: Helpful Links and Phone Numbers tags: CA ChildAbuse Treatment for Mental Illness Is as Necessary, and Normal, as Chemo tags: CA Depression Kids who’ve been taught about sexual abuse more likely to speak up – The Globe and Mail tags: CA ChildAbuse How Social Media Gave a Child Sex Abuse Survivor a…

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Sharing – ‘They Aren’t Who You Think They Are’
ByMikeM March 29, 2021March 28, 2021 Reading Time: 4 minutes

If nothing else, I hope you’ll go read the article for two reasons. One, to recognize how difficult it can be to come forward, and have leaders dismiss your claims, so that you know how not to run any organizations that you and your kids are involved with, and two, to recognize how certain cultural values create a space for abusers. Churches rely on charismatic leaders, but without proper safeguards and oversight, you’ll attract some very charismatic evildoers too. Also, understand that environments with such a strong focus on sexual purity, create a culture where kids are desperate to not do the “worst thing” and are susceptible to this kind of grooming, not to mention a lot of shame around a very natural subject. That shame only increases the secrecy around sex, and again creates a place where secrets can thrive. DO NOT BE A PLACE WHERE SECRETS THRIVE!

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Sharing – Ideas to Self-Soothe When Trauma Makes You Feel Unloved
ByMikeM April 11, 2022April 11, 2022 Reading Time: 2 minutes

There are two things I want you to think about here.

1. Save the things that comfort you to look at, listen to, read, etc. Whatever works for you on a hard day to feel a bit better, save those. Encourage other people to do the same.

2. Send more messages that people can save to make them feel less alone on a hard day. I love that the first response a friend had to hearing Monika saved messages like this, and might have lost them, was to send exactly that kind of message.

So hey, send more of those. Remind people in your life that you appreciate them and care about them. In personal and professional relationships, just say thank you in meaningful ways. You never know who saves those messages to get them through the days they don’t feel good enough.

I do. I bet people around you do too.

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