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ByMikeM September 21, 2020September 20, 2020 Reading Time: 1 minute

Kevin has put together what he’s calling the “The Best Mental Health Blogs We’ve Found (So Far)” over on the Blunt-Therapy website.

He was kind enough to list this little blog among the 49 blogs that are already listed, and he’s taking suggestions for more.

If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that we really need more information, education, and support, when it comes to mental health. Maybe consider checking out his list, following these bloggers on social media of through email or RSS subscriptions, and spend some quality time finding better mental health?

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Sharing – 5 facts about child sex trafficking that will help you make a difference
ByMikeM September 18, 2020September 18, 2020 Reading Time: 2 minutes

This is a really helpful article from Thorn about child sex trafficking, and it contains a lot of good information about how to learn more, how you can help, how to make a report etc. What I also found interesting were these two points that might have been listed under what NOT to do: “Be…

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Sharing – Suicide rate keeps rising among young Americans
ByMikeM September 15, 2020September 14, 2020 Reading Time: 1 minute

The increase is startling. “In actual numbers, the suicide rate among 10- to 24-year-olds jumped from about 7 per 100,000 in 2007 to nearly 11 per 100,000 in 2018, according to the National Vital Statistics Report published Sept. 11.” Note that this is all pre-2020, so we can’t blame this on pandemic, or anything else…

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Sharing – COVID-19 stress is making America increasingly irritable. But what is all this rage hiding?
ByMikeM September 14, 2020September 14, 2020 Reading Time: 2 minutes

I don’t know anyone that isn’t more irritable now than they were a year ago, but do we know why? And what do we do about it? This seems like a fairly accurate picture of our current situation: “In fact, neuroscience tells us is that irritability and anger aren’t in our conscious control. Think of…

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Links I’m Sharing (weekly) Sept. 13, 2020
ByMikeM September 13, 2020September 12, 2020 Reading Time: 1 minute

What is PTSD?

What It’s Like to Live with Suicidal Ideation

Loneliness and suicide: what’s the link and what role does depression play?

5 Steps to Help Someone Who is Suicidal

‘We Are Therapists. After 6 Months of Lockdown, We’re Almost at Breaking Point’

Accepting Limitations in Mental Health Recovery

How Does Racism Affect Black Mental Health?

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Have You Been Labeled?
ByMikeM September 9, 2020September 9, 2020 Reading Time: 2 minutes

The thing I suspect many people worry about, and something that makes me crazy to be honest, is when people see “abuse victim”, or especially “sexual abuse victim”, and their brain immediately takes the shortcut to everything society says about that label. Being a survivor of childhood abuse is not “one” thing, but having your identity boiled down to that “one” thing, is dehumanizing. This is especially true when the stereotypes that we believe about survivors, don’t match who we really are!

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