Shared Links (weekly) Feb. 9, 2025
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Sharing – How to support someone with depression
We often underestimate how much we can help because we live in a society constantly looking for a quick solution to problems. Depression doesn’t have that, which leads us to feel helpless to solve the problem. That being said, there is nothing better when dealing with depression than knowing that someone (preferably multiple people) is going to be with you during the struggle. Everything seems overwhelming when you’re in the midst of depression; you need someone to make it just a little less so.
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Sharing – How To Do Brain Dump: A Technique To Reduce Stress And Overthinking
It’s worth a try. This process usually reduces my stress around projects at work. There’s no reason it shouldn’t have a similar impact on social anxiety and other stresses in daily life.
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Sharing – Social media isn’t the only cause of mental health woes among Texas youth
Social media is easy to target, but it’s not likely the most effective change to make for the benefit of youth mental health. The others take more work and get fewer headlines, so here we are.
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Sharing – Improving teen mental health with Lisa Damour
I needed the ability to go places on my own because I didn’t have the internet. Teens today have much less freedom to go places independently, so we should consider how to keep them connected to society if it’s not online.
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Sharing – Though not their purpose, some economic and social policies can help prevent suicide
It turns out that our environment contributes to the mental health crisis, and improving that environment lessens the suicide risk. If the goal is to prevent suicide, then we need to be looking at the world we create around people.
