Shared Links (weekly) August 10, 2025
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Sharing – Strong social support decreases mental health problems in young adults
Granted, they were quick to point out that the data was collected pre-COVID, so we don’t know if this has held true during the pandemic, and that’s fair. This year has been a whole different ball game for all of us. That being said, however, this is not the first bit of research to point out how we can ease the likelihood, and the severity, of some mental health struggles by simply supporting one another. That feeling that we are not alone in this, that we belong and are connected to other human beings, is a powerful force in our lives, and a powerfully negative force when it’s not there.
We have all the tools we will ever need to stay connected and supportive of each other, all we lack is the willingness to commit to it.
Link – Mental Illness in Youth Often Goes Undetected
Left untreated in childhood and early adulthood, we end up with adults with symptoms that get continually worse over time. She says that ideas of how mental illness “should look” are so prevalent, it is difficult to believe that someone who doesn’t look mentally ill could be struggling. In fact, a study out of Duke…
Links I’m Sharing (weekly) – May 17, 2020
Be Generous For Free! Could COVID-19 Finally Destigmatize Mental Illness? Preventing suicide in men Why don’t doctors seek mental health treatment? They’ll be punished for it. Want to Stem the Rising Mental Health Crisis? Look Beyond the Usual Suspects for Help A Tribute to My Colleagues and All Those Working in Mental Health Posted from…
Sharing – Opinion: Mental health support saved my life. But what if I’d had to wait?
At any point in that journey, through all the ups and downs, not having support and access to a resource may have meant the difference between my healing and my not being here to type these words.
I think about that a lot, too. I think about how many unknown people have been lost who didn’t have that one connection or access to that one resource that could have helped them keep going. It’s a haunting thought. It’s a thought that motivates me to keep speaking and expect better from our society.
Shared Links (weekly) Dec. 28, 2025
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Have you found your creativity to help with your mental health?
Turns out that doing things we like is good for our mental health, so it’s not selfish to make time for them.
