Shared Links (weekly) June 15. 2025
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Sharing – This Is Why Toxic Positivity Does More Harm Than Good
I agree with Rachel on this, offering positive platitudes is often easier than allowing ourselves to feel anything, so it’s what we offer people who are feeling so much more than that. “I truly believe that ultimately, we all want to be listened to and supported. We don’t want to be told why our feelings…
Sharing – How to Respond When Mental Health Advice Feels Like Judgment
Look, I get it, you tried something and it helped you, or you’ve seen it help someone else. Clearly, you are excited about the possibility of helping others, but you’re forgetting something. You’re forgetting that the person you are sharing this advice with, isn’t you.
When you come walking into a conversation with friends, or especially into online communities with statements like the ones above, the message you are actually sending is “Gee, fixing this is easy, you’re just doing it wrong”.
Imagine using those actual words towards someone you barely know. You wouldn’t, would you? At least if you’re a decent human being, you wouldn’t. But you are totally willing to take your beliefs, your own experience, and completely railroad another person’s current reality with it, you are doing something awfully similar. In a moment of emotional vulnerability, you have come in, guns blazing, with the suggestion that all of this pain they are in, and all of this struggling they are going through, should have been easy to avoid.
Shared Links (weekly) Jan. 1 2023
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England’s mental health care lacks money, yes – but it also lacks compassion
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Study Reveals Barriers to Mental Health Support for Black, Latina Women
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Reach Out And Listen: How To Help Someone At Risk Of Suicide
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Researchers explore the relationship between childhood trauma, gray matter, and social anhedonia
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Would you Rather Talk Mental Health with a Bot?
I’m glad so many people are open to having a robot therapist, because as we have discussed many times, we don’t have nearly enough therapists to treat everyone who needs it, and you can’t just create more trained therapists very quickly. With good enough artificial intelligence programming, we CAN spin up more trained chat robots to meet the need. Is the programming good enough today? I don’t know. I’m guessing there is still some work to do, but at what point is it better than what we have now for so many people, which is nothing?
Shared Links (weekly) June 13, 2021
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Friends mourn Steve Austin, former pastor and author who wrote about suicide and mental health
– I didn’t know Steve the way others did. I followed him on social media, read and shared some of his stuff, and will miss having that voice out here.
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“The Me You Can’t See”: How To Stop Hiding Behind Your Hurt and Start Sharing Your Story
