Shared Links (weekly) June 15. 2025
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Link – Facing a Mental Health Challenge? There’s a Resource for That
This is truth: “Arming yourself with available resources can help you start a productive conversation about mental health or addiction so you can better support someone who may need help” The article has a whole bunch of links and information. Worth a look. Facing a Mental Health Challenge? There’s a Resource for That
Link – Why I’m Tired Of Mental Health Awareness Events
I agree with a lot of what James has written in this article. Yes, we need to continue to talk about mental health. The attention the issue has grabbed has made a dent in attitudes and awareness, and there is more to do there.
But, despite all the talk and awareness, we still have a criminally low level of resources available actually to help people. All too often, people who hear these conversations and attend these events wind up looking for help, and finding none.
College Student Dealing with Mental Health Issues? You Might be in the Majority.
This might just mean that the majority of the people around us right now are likely dealing with some sort of mental health struggle. This would also mean that there is nothing wrong with us, that we are the normal ones. That there is no weakness in us, or something lacking in us, but rather that we are having a normal reaction to a world that is causing anxiety and depression.
The fix is out there, not inside of us. We can only do what we can to cope, take care of ourselves, and find the tools that allow us to continue, but the real solution is much larger than that. The real solution will require much more. The real solution to mental health issues is fixing society and the world we live in.
If you want solutions, that’s where you start. How do we build a world where being anxious and depressed isn’t an understandable and normal reaction?
Shared Links (weekly) Oct 25, 2020
A Call For Greater Investment In Workplace Mental Health: Leaders From Facebook, YouTube, Best Buy, Verizon Media And More Weigh In
‘Mental health can affect everyone’
Self-Compassion As A Life Skill
The Best Psychology Podcasts of 2020
How to Stop Obsessing Over Your Mistakes
Eradicating the roots of childhood trauma
Photography as Therapy: How To Keep Your Mind Positively Occupied
Mom Who Lost Daughter Now a Mental Health Advocate
Shared Links (weekly) April 4, 2021
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Ask a Black Therapist: 5 tips to support Black mental health during the Derek Chauvin trial
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A ground breaking campaign that changed the mental health landscape
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How to Save a Life – Suicidality is on the rise in 2021. Talking about it can change everything.
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Book of the Month March 2021 – A Tiny Spark of Hope: Healing Childhood Trauma
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I Use Everything in My Resilience Toolkit to Keep My Mental and Physical Health Intact.
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Sharing – Self-help resources can encourage victim-blaming of individuals with depression, study finds
There’s no language in this belief system for “some other person decided to hurt you for no reason at all and it had nothing to do with you”. There can’t be any language for that, because the entire system is self-centered.
The world isn’t. So please stop telling people who have suffered real harm that it’s all just lessons to learn, that simply excuses away harmful behavior, provides overly simple “fixes” for mental health issues, and places the blame for it square on the victim. That’s no way to support anyone.
