Meeting with others on a regular basis builds strength and resilience in our Mental Health. Friends build each other up to be strong. Part of the reason that I knew traveling for a living was always going to be a temporary thing was this reality. For five years I had only somewhat regular contact with…
The story in Canada is the same story we see everywhere else. We put people struggling with their mental health in jail because they are inconvenient and we don’t have anywhere else to put them. That there are no other available treatment options aside from throwing them in prison, possibly the worst thing we could…
New research finds that family support matters, even for college kids. University of Michigan investigators discovered that when college students feel isolated and disconnected, support from family members can keep them from harming themselves during difficult times, “Parents can serve as a first-line of defense in efforts to prevent or reduce the risk of suicide…
It’s not difficult to imagine how believing the things that you are told during an emotionally abusive childhood would create mental health struggles in adulthood. This is true for many of us: The words they spoke still linger in my mind to this day. The feelings of worthlessness, sadness, pain and shame are all still…
I had not realized this before. How many of you have struggled with healthcare because of these kinds of rules? I can see where it would get massively frustrating. I mentioned that my stay had been in B-Med and he just nodded. Psychiatric hospital stays, he said, are never put in general patient records. B-Med…
A similar thing could be said of children of any type of abuse. One thing I do know for sure, is we absorb a lot of messages that are not true. Including some of the ones in this article. Growing up in an emotionally neglectful household (Childhood Emotional Neglect, or CEN) takes its toll on…
