Shared Links (weekly) August 24, 2025
For more like this, subscribe to the newsletter and get everything I’ve been sharing in your email.
End the Stigma and Start the Conversation About Men’s Mental Health To those who think, ‘I’m not qualified to talk to someone who is suicidal’ How to Recognize a Mental Health Crisis — and How to Help Taking Care of Me: Getting Help for Depression and Burnout After Years of Caregiving How to Listen and…
This is such a powerful part of this article, that I wanted to share it.
How does this manifest over time in terms of our identity? Depression is not something that just disrupts our lives—it can change how we see ourselves as people. Let’s start with experiences and resulting connections that never happen because of our depression. Maybe we don’t have the energy to see a new band when they play a show in our town—so we don’t have what could have been a magical life-altering experience of discovering our favorite band. And our identity also becomes connected with helplessness. We don’t naturally assume we are someone who can “make things happen” and plan for the future, because we can’t be sure depression won’t severely undermine our life goals.
For more like this, subscribe to the newsletter and get everything I’ve been sharing in your email.
Google Partners with NAMI To Create an Anxiety-Disorder Self-Assessment The Dangers of Well-Meaning Mental Health Advice We asked how to prevent suicides caused by the pandemic. This is what experts told us Helping Child Abuse Victims During COVID-19 To Kill The Culture of Silence Surrounding Male Sexual Abuse We Need the Voices of Male Advocates 36…
Psychiatry Won’t Solve Our Mental Health Crisis — Only Politics Can Do That
Why you should invite old friends, strangers, and people who don’t know each other to events– In a time when loneliness is more pervasive than ever, why not extend an invitation?
Most Americans with mental health needs don’t get treatment, report finds
Survivor Of Abuse: Helpful Links and Phone Numbers tags: CA ChildAbuse Treatment for Mental Illness Is as Necessary, and Normal, as Chemo tags: CA Depression Kids who’ve been taught about sexual abuse more likely to speak up – The Globe and Mail tags: CA ChildAbuse How Social Media Gave a Child Sex Abuse Survivor a…