Shared Links (weekly) Jan. 18, 2026
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Sharing – Is social media as bad for mental health as we think? New study challenges screen time fears
You can see how it’s not simple. Mental health across a generation of individuals defies every attempt at a one-size-fits-all narrative, because we are not all one size. On the other hand, our brains want a simple narrative because what they want more than anything else is a reason to think that this won’t happen to our kids or us. So we run to simple solutions like bees to a hive. Sometimes that causes us to miss a lot of the details.
Let’s hope we continue to see improvements, but understand that there are a host of things we can and should be doing that don’t involve social media at all.
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Sharing – Trump administration sends letter wiping out addiction, mental health grants
Make no mistake, gutting these programs will cause deaths, and that’s acceptable to far too many people in this country who seem to think that this complete antipathy toward killing other human beings will somehow skip them when the time comes.
It never does.
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Shared Links (weekly) Jan. 11, 2026
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When The New Year Self-improvement push does harm
The world most people live in doesn’t afford them the time or money to keep up with all the self-improvement trends. Why would we shame them for doing what they can within the limitations they live with?
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Sharing – The mental health signal we can’t afford to ignore in 2026
We talk about the importance of mental health, but our actions as a society send a completely different message.
