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Sharing – How To Post About Mental Health Without Sounding Like A Heartless Jerk
Maybe this is the best advice in the article: “When in doubt, log off, take care of your own mental health and be kind.” I know many of you have seen countless comments and memes in recent weeks regarding some famous people and their mental health. You may have even laughed at a few, though…
Sharing – It Took Me Decades to Feel Angry
Whatever that looked like for you, we know that survivors often have difficulty feeling emotions, let alone expressing them. None of this is good for our long-term healing and I hope you’ll read Andrea’s story and how she approaches anger now. I think we need a reminder that we can heal to the point where we feel our emotions, and live with them in a healthy manner.
Link – More African American kids are dying by suicide. This Emmy-winning producer is trying to change that
Depression, mental health issues, and yes, suicide, happen everywhere, it’s everyone’s problem. For example: While suicide rates for blacks are among the lowest in the nation when compared with whites, American Indians, Asians and Pacific Islanders, suicide is the third leading cause of death for young black men ages 10 to 24, according to 2014…
Sharing – Taking police officers out of mental health-related 911 rescues
I am glad to see police departments willing to take a look at this kind of intervention instead of always responding with officers. As many have said, there are a lot of good officers trying to do the right thing, but they are not mental health professionals, and are often seen as the enemy by…
Sharing – Better Mental Health May Not Mean Exactly What You Think It Does
I will say that his discussion around what people come into therapy for in terms of defining good mental health is often an issue. When I started therapy I wanted to not dissociate, because the dissociative states were proving to be more and more dangerous. But, it wasn’t like we could sit and discuss plans to simply stop, we had to dig into what happens right before I dissociate and learn better ways of dealing with that. (In my case, stress)
Even then, the desire to simply feel less stress is not always possible. It would have solved the immediate reason why I was in therapy, less stress would make me less likely to dissociate, right? But it also wasn’t sustainable because at some point life is going to be stressful. The key was not to avoid stress but to learn how to recognize it, acknowledge it, feel it, and deal with it in a healthier way.
So yes, I agree our definition of good mental health needs to incorporate much, much more than “not feeling sad, anxious, depressed, etc.” because we will feel those things again at some point. They are unavoidable, but succumbing to them without a proper response is not. We can, and should, learn how to do that.
