Shared Links (weekly) June 15. 2025
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Sharing – How the Mental Health System Failed Me
Behavioral issues in school, getting in trouble, and wham! Instead of mental health care, you’re a criminal case. We do it to adults all the time, why would we not see it the same way with kids? Especially kids without the family means to get private care and assistance?
This is what we do, and we need to figure out something else. The criminal justice system is not mental health care.
Sharing – Lean on Your Support System When You’re Anxious
It’s grounding. It doesn’t solve the thing I’m anxious about, but it stops the cycling, and allows me to focus on the reality of the situation, which is usually not nearly as bad as I’ve made it out to be.
But, it also assumes that I have someone to talk to about it. This is really the challenge for far too many people, who don’t have anyone to talk to.
Can you be the person who just listens? I’m willing to bet someone in your life could really use that.
Shared Links (weekly) April 3, 2022
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The Importance of Mental Health During Sexual Assault Awareness Month
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To understand our nation’s mental health crisis, look no further than the emergency department
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5 ways college instructors can help students take care of their mental health
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How Medical Trauma and Chronic Illness Trigger My Childhood Trauma
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I Just Unfollowed Hundreds of People on Social Media – Here’s Why You Should, Too – “There are so many good, empowering, accounts out there. There’s no need to follow people who make you feel less-than.”
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If we all talked about suicide, wouldn’t that be better for everyone?
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Sharing – Suicide awareness campaign: effectiveness on stigma and help-seeking
Well, now we have an actual study showing that, while they don’t come close to solving some of the major issues we have with the mental health system, awareness campaigns do some good.
Links I’m Sharing (weekly)
Teachers need better training to combat child sex abuse, says charity Depression and Marriage: Dealing with a Depressed Spouse Honouring Veterans Means Caring About Their Mental Health #MeToo includes too many children; we all need to look out for them Updated: Reality of children’s mental health issues are terrifying with few answers How Group Therapy…
Link – The Power of One: A Supportive Adult Has Huge Impact in the Life of an Abused Child
Agreed: “Both in my work as a child psychotherapist and personally as a survivor of childhood abuse, I’ve seen what a difference these “ones” can make to a child who is living with domestic violence. Children are resilient. They can survive and even thrive after unthinkable trauma. But that resilience generally comes from having a…
