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This article explains a lot of the reasons why we should stop ignoring mental health as a workplace issue. If this pandemic, and movement for racial justice should remind all of us, work doesn’t happen in a vacuum apart from the rest of our lives, and world events. Yet, it also references mental health as…
Some Concrete Ways You Can Support Someone Struggling With Their Mental Health
But, I will ask challenge you to go read the article because whether you give a coupon or not, the ideas are solid examples of the kinds of things you can do for someone you care about who is struggling. Often we avoid someone who we know is struggling because we are uncomfortable, not knowing what to do to help them. Well, here you go. Here are 21 things you can do. If you’re in proximity to the person, you can help them with necessary chores like laundry or grocery shopping, or simply accompany them on a walk. If you are maintaining contact with them at a distance, you can still have coffee together, offer a safe place to vent, or assist them with medicine copays. There are plenty of other ideas in the coupons and maybe just thinking about some of these examples will inspire some ideas of your own that would be appreciated by the folks you know.
What else? What can you do for the folks who need someone to simply be there and offer to help do something? Anything.
Or, what was something that someone did for you when you were struggling? What do you wish someone had done?
Feel free to share your own ideas.
Link – The stigma of mental health: it wants silence, but it needs attention
I think this is true, and I think this has become something that we can see online in a great many ways. Every time, for example, I tweet a link or share a story, I see those likes and retweets as people just wanting someone else to know. “Every time I do a media interview…
Shared Links (weekly) Dec 20, 2020
Ending Stigma about Suicide
Treating trauma early to help children cope down the line
The Cognitive Distortion Which Severely Hinders Recovery
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Coping with Unintentional Mental Health Stigma
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Toxic Positivity Is on the Rise. Are You Guilty of Spreading It?
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Sharing – The Psychology of Feeling Heard
Maybe the most interesting aspect of meeting survivors is how many ways this happened to all of us. I’ve yet to meet a survivor who has said that they tell people about their trauma and are always believed, taken seriously, and encouraged to continue telling their story. It’s not that they don’t occasionally hear that from an individual, but it is always the exception instead of the rule.
Sharing – Love live music? Here’s how it is secretly boosting your mental health
Last year, my wife and I decided our mantra would be “buy the ticket, go to the show” as often as possible. This year, we saw our first show last week and have been busy making plans for more, traveling in some cases and simply driving to New Orleans after work in others. I know it helped me get through 2024. I don’t know that it will solve everything 2025 brings us, but I know it will be a positive event for us and that the effects covered in the article below are accurate.
