Shared Links (weekly) April 6, 2025
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Bless the People Who Stuck Around After My Mental Illness Diagnosis
Dissociative Identity Disorder: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
Children tricked into abusing other youngsters in ‘disturbing new trend’
Returning to pre-pandemic life: Tips to cope with fear, anxiety
My Bipolar Disorder Wasn’t Caused by a ‘Lack of Self-Control’
How to Prevent Burnout and Increase Your Resilience
Again, as Peter goes on to describe the issue is not that people might suddenly play some Tetris when dealing with trauma. That’s probably not going to harm them much, it’s that we, as a society, will come to expect that is the “magic pill” to help everyone deal with trauma and start dismissing it as something that’s easy to fix with some Tetris when it’s much, much more complicated than that. We shouldn’t lose sight of that fact.
Get educated about trauma and the conditions that can be caused by trauma. Do it for yourself so that you can understand and heal from your trauma and do it for the people around you impacted by trauma.
Don’t tell me you don’t know anyone who’s been impacted by trauma. That’s simply not true.
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…