This is something I wish we could understand about child abuse survivors: I am finally forgiving myself for the things that I did to survive. Those things that seemed foolish or harmful from the cheap seats. Those things that seemed self destructive and counter-intuitive from the outside. Many of them were, honestly, but I’m…
Well this really changes things. What if I told you that “normal” actually is dealing with a mental health problem at some point in your life? “New research, from our lab and from others around the world, however, suggests mental illnesses are so common that almost everyone will develop at least one diagnosable mental disorder…
Unfortunately, I think too many survivors seem to think this way: You will hear many phrases about healing. ‘When I heal’ etc. The idea of this is to give us hope. Hope that one day we will be cured and have no suffering. At the time of our darkest hour, thoughts of healing may help…
This is not surprising – “New findings suggest that adolescent girls and boys might experience depression differently and that sex-specific treatments could be beneficial for adolescents.” Depression is a very complicated thing. It rarely displays the same way for everyone, and things that help one person may have no affect at all on another. We…
This is an interesting idea: The network approach also has a strong message for all of us who care about mental health and illness. We should abandon the last vestiges of our belief that mental disorders are best seen as medical diseases. The symptoms of depression, PTSD, or social anxiety don’t point to an underlying…
This is the most important thing – If you are dealing with depression, remember that you are not alone. More than 300 million people around the world live with depression. It is the leading cause of disability. I’m glad they started the article with that, because it is vital to understand that everything that follows…
