Shared Links (weekly) Mar. 30, 2025
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How This Barber Uses His Shop To Improve Black Men’s Mental Health Guest Post: Building Self-Esteem After a Difficult Childhood Standing up for men’s mental health 5 resources to help educate parents in fight against child sexual abuse Opinion: University mental health resources are inadequate, students need more than goat yoga and therapy dogs Managing…
Reviews Elsewhere – Blinded by Hope by Meg McGuire
As seen over on the Psych Central site: In her riveting memoir, Blinded by Hope: My Journey Through My Son’s Bipolar Illness and Addiction, McGuire tells the story of her son Ryan who battles bipolar, addiction and incarceration. Yet on a much larger level, McGuire exposes the messy and often heartbreaking reality of mental illness….
Sharing – Tips for dealing with anxiety, the ‘check engine light’ of the brain
I love thinking about anxiety as the check engine light. It fits if we think about it, because sometimes that light tells us that there’s something wrong, but sometimes the light itself is malfunctioning.
That’s anxiety to me. Sometimes there really are things the be anxious about, and sometimes those things have caused an overload in our brain such that we can’t figure out what to do with that check engine light
Link – Why Rob Whalen walked away from baseball
Can we definitively say what happened to Rob Whalen shows a lack of caring in major league baseball about mental health, or a failure of the Mariners? No. I’m not ready to say that.There’s too much we don’t know from this story. What I will say, however, is that his description of what happened in…
Sharing – A third of parents are embarrassed to seek mental health support for their children
We are going nowhere with this. We are still looking at kids with mental health struggles as a product of bad parents, and discouraging parents from getting their kids the help they need at a young age. Then, without treatment, they just grow up into adults with worsening symptoms who need ever more help.
Is this really the cycle we want to be in? This makes no sense. It’s not about raising awareness anymore, I suspect it’s about putting an end to passing judgment on every single thing parents do, or don’t do. We’ve got to stop that. We’re only hurting more and more kids.
