Shared Links (bi-weekly) Aug. 9, 2026
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Link – The Smartphone Psychiatrist
Can a smartphone, which already knows so much about us, be used to monitor the mental health status of patients? This sounds far-fetched, but as I think about all the ways my smartphone knows me and my behavior, this doesn’t seem that unrealistic: “The force they hope to harness is the power of daily behavior,…
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Shared Links (weekly) March 5, 2023
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How to Help Someone Having a Panic Attack (In 4 Simple Steps)– These are important things to know before someone you know has a panic attack.
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Keeping Your Mental Health Crisis Plan Up to Date– It’s important to have one, and it’s important to make sure the information in it is still accurate.
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Study: LGBTQ+ youth are less likely to feel depressed with parental support
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Sharing – The Legit Mental Health Benefits of Doing Nothing, According to Science
This study shows us something really interesting. I don’t know that I can remember the last time I just spent a short period thinking and not doing something to distract me from thinking.
Sharing – Common Mental Health Advice We Should Actually Ignore Right Now
For example, I’m not anxious JUST because my brain is working overtime, or because I find myself focusing on the negative. I’m also anxious because over 400,000 people in the US have died from COVID-19 and a large number of people in my local area feel no need to change their behavior in acknowledgement of that fact.
You know what that is? That is reality, and there’s no amount of “good vibes” that is going to make that reality not a reality. It’s totally normal to feel anxious about that, and telling me to “think positive”, or get more sleep, or exercise, isn’t going to change that.
We all live in a very uncertain, and difficult, reality right now. The answer to social injustice and racism, again, is not just thinking positively about it. It’s having difficult, often painful, conversations about the topic. It’s about listening to other people’s experiences and working hard to understand the world differently than we did yesterday.
That too, is a source of anxiety.
