Shared Links (weekly) Feb. 16, 2025
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Link – When a mental health emergency lands you in jail
Jail is a terrible place for someone having a mental health crisis: “Across the country, and especially in rural areas, people in the middle of a mental health crisis are locked in a cell when a hospital bed or transportation to a hospital isn’t immediately available. The patients are transported from the ER like inmates,…
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Mental Health Month
Let’s talk about our hard times…it’s healing
Pandemic Guilt and What to Do with It: Move from Guilt to Gratitude then Pay it Forward
NSPCC urges parents to discuss online grooming with children as online usage increases
How Employers Can Support Employees Mental Health During the Pandemic
Strategies to Relieve COVID-19 Anxiety
How to Build a “Psychological First Aid Kit”
Keeping your kids safe online in the age of COVID: Usable tips for parents
Sharing – Improving teen mental health with Lisa Damour
I needed the ability to go places on my own because I didn’t have the internet. Teens today have much less freedom to go places independently, so we should consider how to keep them connected to society if it’s not online.Â
Sharing – Mental Health Leveled Up in 2024
Those are good things. Properly dealing with the mental health crisis will require more research, tools, and treatment resources. These don’t grow overnight; achieving them takes years of hard work, so any progress is good news.Â
However, I agree with Time that the incoming Presidential Administration has not indicated a preference for continuing this work with research funding, new drug and therapy approvals, or respect for the science. That puts our progress at risk.Â
Link – Jailed And Mentally Ill: ‘Insane’ Investigates Treatment Behind Bars
One, this sounds like a very interesting book to pick up. Two, this interview with the author, Alisa Roth, is enlightening in many ways. “In her new book Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness, Roth investigates the widespread incarceration of the mentally ill in the U.S., and what she sees as impossible burdens placed…
