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Youth Mental Health – A Crisis, but Ending Pandemic Rules Won’t End the Crisis
There’s been a lot of talk about youth mental health during the pandemic, including a number of prominent voices raising the alarm about this crisis. There have been almost as many voices suggesting that ending things like lockdowns, mask and vaccine mandates, and just getting “back to normal” will fix this mental health crisis.
I am not one of those voices.
Now let me be clear, I’m not saying that the pandemic hasn’t played a number on mental health for all of us, it clearly has. But, the crisis in mental health for everyone, but especially young people, existed long before COVID-19.
Shared Links (weekly) March 19, 2023
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Learning to hold sorrow– “What I know for sure, after the work and conversations these past three weeks, is that we need to get better at holding, hearing, and healing sorrow.”
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Teens Know Why Mental Health Is Worsening, Now It’s Time to Listen
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5 Benefits of Solitude and Why You Need It for Your Mental Health– in a world that values productivity over everything, we lose the ability to simply be alone
Mental Health Double Whammy – Losing Sleep Makes us Less Social
The news out of Berkeley isn’t good for anyone who suffers from insomnia as a result of anxiety, manic episodes, or depression. Turns out that being sleep deprived, even a little bit, makes us less likely to be social, and also less socially acceptable to others. Notably, researchers found that brain scans of sleep-deprived people…
Link – Mental Illness Is Far More Common Than We Knew – Scientific American Blog Network
Well this really changes things. What if I told you that “normal” actually is dealing with a mental health problem at some point in your life? “New research, from our lab and from others around the world, however, suggests mental illnesses are so common that almost everyone will develop at least one diagnosable mental disorder…
