Shared Links (weekly) June 29, 2025
For more like this, subscribe to the newsletter and get everything I’ve been sharing in your email.
Similar Posts
Links I’m Sharing (weekly)
Depression Influencers: The Top 10 You Should Know Why we still need to hear survivor stories Mental Health Awareness Is On The Rise, But Access To Professionals Remains Dismal As Suicides Rise, Insurers Find Ways to Deny Mental Health Care – A lengthy read, but important to understand where we are, and how we got…
Shared Links (weekly) Feb. 16, 2025
For more like this, subscribe to the newsletter and get everything I’ve been sharing in your email.
Sharing – The Benefits of Having Positive Social Interactions
I can’t remember the last time I had many of those little incidental interactions. Once upon a time they were frequent, multiple times a day. Now?
Yeah, not as much. which is why we need to try and create some of these interactions, even if they can’t always be in person. A few texts back and forth, a quick call, a chat with coworkers on our messaging platform, laughter with the people you do see, etc.
I miss the interactions I used to have, there’s no doubt about that, but I am trying, not always successfully, to make sure I still manage to create some. I know how vital that connectedness is for my own mental health.
I also know I’m not alone in that.
Link – Self-Rating Poor Mental Health as ‘Good’ Tied to Better Outcomes a Year Later
This is an interesting thing to consider. “Self-rated mental health is a very powerful construct that can be useful in clinical practice if we consider it a potential screener for mental health. Positive ratings of mental health even in the face of symptoms might not be a result of denial but may offer valuable insights…
Link – Mental illness crisis: Overhaul in the works
At least Oregon is acknowledging the problem and working to find ways to change it. “Oregon’s pattern of cycling homeless mentally ill people through county jails and the state psychiatric hospital is expensive and ineffective. “ Not everything in the article is going to necessarily be adopted, or work if it is, but I’m glad…
