Shared Links (weekly) June 15. 2025
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On The Mind: How Trauma Changes You
What It Really Feels Like to Dissociate — And How To Feel Better
Why Change Is Hard Even When We Know It’s Needed
Action on childhood trauma ‘could help solve drug death crisis’
That feeling you can’t name? It’s called emotional exhaustion
The Eraser: Confronting childhood trauma through art and photography
If this gap feeling describes where you are in your healing, turn your gaze around from looking at the goal and how far it may be to how much further along you are on that path than you were 1, 3, or 5 years ago.
You might be surprised by how far you’ve come in that time. You might even take a moment to feel proud of yourself.
Someone is having a mental breakdown in public. What is the compassionate way to respond?
Encouraging Messages to Read If You’re Struggling With Depression Right Now
Stamping out the stigma: throwaway saying and why they’re so damaging to mental health
It’s OK to Have Complicated Feelings About an Abusive Parent Dying
I caught an interesting, short podcast episode on this topic recently. The host, Dave Fraser is joined by Psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb to discuss the question of whether we can overcome our childhoods.
It’s an interesting episode, and I think many of you might learn a thing or two about how the stories we’ve been told about ourselves in childhood can be rewritten and how a good therapist might assist in that. You can get the links and notes from the show here:
I’ve seen and experienced the things Laura talks about in the first paragraph, but don’t really recall anyone giving me odd looks. “I see unspoken mental health stigma primarily as people’s behaviors toward those with mental illness. While many wouldn’t argue that avoidance, discrimination, and bullying can all factor into stigmatizing behavior, there is one type of…