Shared Links (weekly) March 1, 2026
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Sharing – Why Adolescence Matters in Preventing Substance Abuse
The reality is, even if a kid has had severe trauma in their life, there are things we can do, immediately, that can lower the chances of this trauma impacting them later in life. Things like getting them support, positive role models and experiences, and actively getting them involved in healing can make a huge difference.
There’s No Magic Pill
Mental health is complicated. The solution to one individual case is complicated. The solution to the lack of resources is complicated. Telling people to get more exercise, let alone selling them the diet and workout that will solve all their mental health issues, is a fraud, isn’t it? Saying that we simply need to give everyone free therapy without addressing the serious shortage of therapists is as well.
Anyone who suggests there is a simple solution to the mental health problem facing us as a country and the world is not to be taken seriously.
Sharing – Why Healing from Trauma Can Get Harder As We Age
As I’ve said before, we were too busy simply surviving the abuse to learn the things we were supposed to learn as children, so we often start out behind in various ways.
Of course, in order to learn those things we need to do the work as an adult, to first unlearn the things we learned, and then learn the things we didn’t learn to start with. This is, perhaps, one of the real tragedies of so many survivors not even telling anyone, let alone starting this work, for decades.
That’s so many more years of doing the things we need to unlearn, and undoing that is just going to be more difficult the longer this has been true for us. So, what can we do?
What Future Do Kids Have If Mental Health Care Bankrupts Their Families?
We have to face the fact that, as much as we might not openly admit it, we live in a society where kids with mental illness have very little hope, and we don’t care enough to change that. They, their parents, and their siblings are “others” that we’d rather not be bothered with. Societally, we’d rather they went away than be concerned with figuring out ways to help them.
That’s not good enough.
Link – You saw yourself as damaged goods; I saw a determined survivor of abuse
Sadly, this is too familiar for many of us who’ve been involved in the survivor community. You had resilience. You were smart. You were funny. You were kind. You had a fragile heart and osteoporotic bones. But I never looked at you and saw damage. I only ever saw resilience and hope. It was you…
Shared Links (weekly) July 17, 2022
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What to Say, and Not to Say, to Someone Who’s Grieving – We don’t deal with grief well, we haven’t learned how to handle it for ourselves, let alone someone else. It’s time to learn.
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Researchers surprised to find seven adult health conditions linked to childhood abuse
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Taking a mental health day can be good for you – here’s how to make the most of one
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Call 988: New suicide hotline can help as mental health crisis worsens
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R. Kelly Sentencing: Being Abused Is Not an Excuse to Abuse Others
