Shared Links (weekly) Dec. 14, 2025
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Sharing – ‘Do All The Things’: A Therapist On The Benefit Of Taking A Holistic Approach To Your Mental Health
I’ve been saying it for years. Any article that claims to identify the “one thing” you need for your mental health is a lie. There is no one thing that works for everyone, but trying everything will help you identify what works for you. The things that are good for you anyway, like eating right, exercising, learning, social connections, etc., will only help. Why not do them?Â
Sharing – 32 Surprising Mental Health Statistics
This article from Talkspace offers a lot of statistics to back up the claim that mental health issues are impacting people at a much, much, higher rate than we probably think they are. Take this single line from the longer article, for example: 1.1% of U.S. adults experience schizophrenia; 2.6% adults live with bipolar disorder;…
Sharing – Self-help resources can encourage victim-blaming of individuals with depression, study finds
There’s no language in this belief system for “some other person decided to hurt you for no reason at all and it had nothing to do with you”. There can’t be any language for that, because the entire system is self-centered.
The world isn’t. So please stop telling people who have suffered real harm that it’s all just lessons to learn, that simply excuses away harmful behavior, provides overly simple “fixes” for mental health issues, and places the blame for it square on the victim. That’s no way to support anyone.
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How Digital Technology Can Enhance Mental Health Oakland may send mental health experts, not police, for some 911 calls Amid concerns about grad student mental health, one university takes a novel approach The Enduring Pain of Childhood Verbal Abuse Using Writing to Help Us Process Our Grief I Made the Greatest Decision of My Life…
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Sharing – How Stories Help Children Build Emotional Intelligence
It’s not just a lack of children’s stories that could help them develop these skills; it’s a lack of adults who can provide the example of those skills in action. It’s almost as if we don’t see the issues with emotional intelligence and mental health among young people as something older generations contributed to, by not being able to pass on our own stories as examples, because we didn’t have the skills either. We just grew up in a time when talking about it was considered taboo, and look how well that has turned out for us.Â
