Shared Links (weekly) Dec. 28, 2025
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Sharing – How Discrimination Affects Your Mental And Physical Health
Each of us has a choice to make. We can acknowledge that millions of people are oppressed and discriminated against. We can recognize that each additional act of oppression adds to the stress and mental health issues, or we can ignore that and do nothing. We can support celebrities, politicians, and religious figures who have no issue oppressing other people, who favor discriminating against people who are not like us, or we can contribute to lessening the discrimination people face and the harm caused.
Read the article below. Read it slowly and thoughtfully. Then choose wisely.
Link – Why We Need to Care About the Psychological Toll of Entrepreneurship
New studies are now beginning to shed light on the psychological toll of entrepreneurship. Research shows nearly three-quarters of business owners have concerns about their mental health. Almost half have struggled with depression or anxiety before. Society tends to glorify success and achievement. We shy away from talking about mental health due to the fear…
Links I’m Sharing (weekly) Aug 2, 2020
ntal Health Is Often A Privilege For BIPOC. Here’s Why That Needs To Change.
African American teens face mental health crisis but are less likely than whites to get treatment
Managing your mental health – why staying connected is so important
Don’t Put Off Taking Care of Yourself
For black men, higher education and incomes don’t lower risks of depression, researchers say
‘No more pictures of someone clutching their head’: The photo competition reimagining images of mental health
Thoughts Of Suicide, Other Mental Health Struggles Still High For LGBTQ Youth
Tiffany and Frank King Talk Suicide Prevention
Link – Black Teenagers Report Different Depression Symptoms Than White People, & It Affects How Their Mental Health Gets Treated
I’ve written before about how boys, in general, display depressive symptoms differently than girls. According to this study, there are also cultural differences between blacks and whites, and I would imagine that is true across many other groups as well: Almost 800 Black teens between the ages of 11 and 21 who lived in public…
College Student Dealing with Mental Health Issues? You Might be in the Majority.
This might just mean that the majority of the people around us right now are likely dealing with some sort of mental health struggle. This would also mean that there is nothing wrong with us, that we are the normal ones. That there is no weakness in us, or something lacking in us, but rather that we are having a normal reaction to a world that is causing anxiety and depression.
The fix is out there, not inside of us. We can only do what we can to cope, take care of ourselves, and find the tools that allow us to continue, but the real solution is much larger than that. The real solution will require much more. The real solution to mental health issues is fixing society and the world we live in.
If you want solutions, that’s where you start. How do we build a world where being anxious and depressed isn’t an understandable and normal reaction?
