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Sharing – You Can’t Breathe Through a Broken System
Like her, I am all for doing what you need to for self-care, whatever that looks like for you. But we cannot simply prescribe better self-care practices to people who need our society to stop harming them.Â
Until we recognize that and fight for those changes, we are falling short in advocating for better mental health for everyone.Â
Link – Five Common False Beliefs About Trauma
I’ve heard some variation of all of these myths over the years from folks I interact with online and off. And, it matters if you are unable to see them as false: “Often, these take the form of patients’ false beliefs about the trauma they experienced, who they are in relation to it, and what…
Sharing – You don’t have to earn your mental health struggles
There is so much wrong with this statement, but it’s also kind of where we are. “Yet those who feel lucky enough to have made it as far as they have — to attend a good college, to land a solid summer internship, to earn a coveted spot on a sports team or in a…
Sharing – How the Stigma of Mental Illness Has Evolved Over Time
There is a whole world of people who aren’t looking at blogs like this one, or trying to talk about mental health on social media. Sure, there’s a lot of us who are, and I love supporting those folks by trying to share information, or just check in. But, that’s not going to change the stigma that exists in society until all of those other folks, actually come in contact with mental health struggles in real life. As long as that’s not happening, it’ll remain stigmatized, and “something that happens to other people”.
Sharing – A suicide safety plan saved my life. Here’s what it looks like, and why it worked
So, maybe before you or someone you love, gets into a crisis situation, it would be a good idea to work on this kind of plan with a professional, so that when you really need it, it’s there. Of course, as Kimberly points out, that means we should be able to talk about our struggles and our own risks when it comes to suicidal thoughts in the first place without the fear of being stigmatized.
