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Sharing – Why Trauma Survivors Often Don’t Ask for Help Until It’s Almost Too Late
ByMikeM August 25, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

It’s one thing to encourage trauma survivors to ask for help. It’s quite another to make sure the help available to them won’t make things worse. There are too many unsafe people in this world who would mock, dismiss, or retraumatize survivors. So long as those experiences keep repeating themselves, there is no wonder that survivors don’t ask for help until it’s the absolute last resort. That’s exactly what happened to me, too. I didn’t ask for help; I just kept getting worse until I had no choice but to get help.

That shouldn’t have been necessary.

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Sharing – Early intervention for mental health conditions can prevent escalation
ByMikeM August 20, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

We could make a massive improvement in society’s mental health by getting involved earlier, but we somehow continue to do very little and hope it won’t get worse.

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Sharing – Good News for Sports Fans—Watching the Game Could Actually Boost Your Mental Health
ByMikeM August 18, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

It makes sense; sports can become a community, and we know how much that can benefit our mental health:

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Sharing – Mentally, are young people really worse off? Or are they better at admitting they’re struggling?
ByMikeM August 8, 2026August 20, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Today, young people are more likely to report it. This is a good thing, but it raises the question of whether the increases are real or whether people are simply more likely to report struggling. This report makes it clear that while that explains some of the rising rates, it’s not the complete picture. The complete picture is that young people are struggling more.

So how do we make sure they can get the help they need?

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Sharing – Why Young People are Using AI for Emotional Support
ByMikeM August 4, 2026August 3, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

It turns out that young people aren’t just being silly when they use AI to help with their mental health. They get real benefits from it, despite all the risks that come along with those benefits:

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Sharing – Trauma survivors process angry expressions differently on a subconscious level
ByMikeM August 2, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

This doesn’t surprise me. Growing up in an abusive situation taught me to be on the lookout for danger, and nothing was more dangerous than people on the verge of being angry. It’s only natural that I’ve spent the rest of my life highly attuned to anger and trying to find ways to diffuse it before they hurt me or someone else.

Now we can show that it’s not just a learned behavior, but it’s hard-coded into our brains.

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