Sharing – The Brain Benefits of Social Connection

Sharing – The Brain Benefits of Social Connection

This is why I harp on this quite a bit. We lose people to depression and mental health struggles when they are disconnected from the people in their lives. Our best prevention is to remain connected, yet it’s become so easy today to be disconnected from each other. (I am perhaps more guilty of this than most, I admit. I should spend more time taking action on the tips in this article too.)

Sharing – Mental Health Over Matter: An Interview with Noah Chenevert

Sharing – Mental Health Over Matter: An Interview with Noah Chenevert

We spend so much time shouting from the rooftops when we find something that works, telling anyone and everyone that they NEED to do the same thing. That impulse is understandable. What we leave out, however, are all the things we tried that didn’t work or when the thing that worked for us 2-3 years ago has stopped working.

It would help if we did that more often to remind people that we are not alone but not all the same.

Sharing – “We cannot struggle alone”: Students learning mental health ‘first aid’ to identify friends in need

Sharing – “We cannot struggle alone”: Students learning mental health ‘first aid’ to identify friends in need

Again we see how being educated and open about mental health issues creates people who know what to do. We can’t get support from people who don’t know what to do and they don’t learn what to do when society remains unwilling to talk about mental health.

Sharing – Where Does Shame Come From?

Sharing – Where Does Shame Come From?

Those who have suffered childhood trauma often have shame that we cannot place. Sometimes because our memories are foggy and we can’t place them, maybe more often because shame became part of us as we grew up. Our very development occurred in the middle of shame, so much so that we aren’t even aware of it.

It just is. It has always been and always will be.

Except that’s not correct at all.