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Sharing – Opinion: Mental health support saved my life. But what if I’d had to wait?
ByMikeM August 28, 2025August 27, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

At any point in that journey, through all the ups and downs, not having support and access to a resource may have meant the difference between my healing and my not being here to type these words.

I think about that a lot, too. I think about how many unknown people have been lost who didn’t have that one connection or access to that one resource that could have helped them keep going. It’s a haunting thought. It’s a thought that motivates me to keep speaking and expect better from our society.

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Sharing – Hopelab Report Finds Online Communities a Lifeline to Rural Youth
ByMikeM August 25, 2025October 27, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

The same thing is true of adults, and this is why the lack of places where we can talk about difficult things without someone threatening to “ban” sites is also dangerous. We are cutting off the community that so many people desperately need.

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Sharing – You Don’t Need to Remember Everything to Heal From Everything
ByMikeM August 20, 2025August 19, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Thirty years later, I’ve done a lot of healing. I feel good about the life I’ve built and the people I’ve been building it with. I’ve found a way to want to continue living this life, and I’ve found ways to give back that fit into my life. What I don’t have is an exact timeline of childhood events that include all of the details of what happened to me.

It turns out I didn’t need that to get here. I have enough to know what happened. I have enough that I can share my “story” as I remember it.

That’s plenty.

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Sharing – Children in a mental health crisis can spend days languishing in the ER
ByMikeM August 19, 2025August 19, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

What we don’t hear a lot about are the details, specifically, about what happens when the treatment resources don’t exist to meet the need. We may not think we are rounding up unhoused people and putting them in jails, but where do we think they will go when there aren’t enough treatment options? That’s going to include a lot of kids escaping abusive homes. Other kids end up hanging around the ER waiting for treatment if they aren’t in a penal facility already. Plenty of others remain in dangerous situations while they and their parents stay and search for somewhere to get treatment.

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Sharing – Food Insecurity Linked to Rapid, Reversible Mental Health Deterioration
ByMikeM August 9, 2025August 9, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

Doing what we can to lift people out of poverty, homelessness, food insecurity, etc., is mental healthcare.

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Sharing – It takes a village to save a life
ByMikeM August 7, 2025August 6, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Saving a life is not about having a hotline, though they do help. (If you’re struggling, you can find a list of resources here.) It’s not about offering advice like “touch grass” or exercise more. It’s about being in a community that will sit with us at our worst and reminds us that we can get through this because we are not going through it alone.

Too many of us are incapable of creating that community for our friends and family members. If we don’t, who will?

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