Shared Links (weekly) April 20, 2025
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Sharing – Toxic Positivity: Harmful or Helpful
It’s the insistence that everyone around you also is positive all the time, demanding “Good Vibes Only” as the article points out, that worries me. Because people in real pain, social issues that cause real harm, etc. are not good vibes. When a team was winning gold medals, no one wanted to do more than focus on that success, and repeated stories of abuse went ignored. Is our constant need for positivity forcing us to ignore racism, homelessness, abuse, and many other social issues that we need to do more than give passing support to on social media?
Maybe most importantly, are there people in our lives right now hurting, who desperately need our support, who we are ignoring because they bring us down?
Shared Links (weekly) Jan. 26, 2025
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Mental Health Charts
Buzzfeed is not normally I site I link to often, but when they put together this list, I thought it might be worth sharing with everyone.
28 Mental Health Charts That Literally Every Last One Of Us Can Benefit From
Sharing – COVID-19 and Touch Deprivation
There are really two things that I’ve been thinking about with this distancing that we’ve been doing, this article addresses one of them. Touch is an important part of not only our mental health, but also our immune system. As we live in a world that is now causing us to touch each other much…
Lifehacker Lists Mental Health Podcasts
Since I’m not well-suited to giving recommendations right now, do you love any of the podcasts on the list I linked? If not, what mental health podcasts do you love?
