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Sharing – Lack of Access to Mental Health Treatment Reduces Lifetime Income
ByMikeM January 24, 2022January 24, 2022 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Look, we know that untreated mental health issues impact people’s lives in many ways. Would the lack of treatment at 20 for bipolar make a huge difference in lifetime income? Of course, it would impact the ability to even finish college successfully and that would then continue to impact things significantly. Would the need to take leaves of absence or go to work every day with depression and no access to help for that cause you to be less successful? Again, statistically, I think that would be obvious that it happens more times than not.

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Why do we get Stressed About Replying Quickly?
ByMikeM January 22, 2022January 21, 2022 Reading Time: 2 minutes

My first thought, obviously, was about the workplace and the culture we have created there that rewards being “always-on” but I think so much of this pressure permeates beyond work. As technology has become commonplace we all live with this pressure and this expectation. Think about it, how many times in a given week are you apologizing to friends and family because you couldn’t get back to them right away?

I do it all the time.

Heck, I’ve gotten text messages while having lunch or dinner with a friend, catching up with someone I haven’t gotten to see much for the last couple of years, and then apologized for doing that and being unavailable. Why? That makes no sense but we live in a culture where being connected to technology all the time also means that we should be responsive all the time. Or at least we feel like we should. Frankly, that’s a lot of pressure.

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Book Reviews

Reviews Elsewhere – Trauma Survivor’s Guide to Coping With Panic Attacks by Nicole Dake
ByMikeM January 18, 2022January 17, 2022 Reading Time: 1 minute

I found this review by Kevin C of this book by Nicole Dake and was immediately drawn to the title. As a trauma survivor panic attacks have been a part of my life at various times and I know the same is true for many other survivors I’ve talked to.

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Sharing – How to Improve Self-Esteem When You Live with Depression
ByMikeM January 17, 2022January 16, 2022 Reading Time: 1 minute

There are other ways in the article below but this one? This one is pure gold right now because we are all so overwhelmed, stressed, anxious and uncertain about everything. In the midst of that?

Keep track of your wins

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Sharing – Depression doesn’t look alike for everyone – so why should the treatments for it?
ByMikeM January 15, 2022January 14, 2022 Reading Time: 2 minutes

I hope we can start to understand this better and provide a wider variety of tools to help with the wide variety of ways that mental health issues can manifest in different people.

I also hope we can start to understand that there is no one “right” way to treat our mental health issues, no magic solution that everyone can just go and get.

Lastly, I also hope that we can understand that my symptoms are not your symptoms, and the way something like depression can appear for one person versus another doesn’t make one more or less severe.

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Announcements

Every Day Is a Good Day to Talk About Mental Health, but There are Some Upcoming Special Ones
ByMikeM January 11, 2022January 11, 2022 Reading Time: 2 minutes

I’m a firm believer that we don’t need any kind of special permission to talk about mental health and the stories of people dealing with mental health issues any day that we want to, but I also wanted to bring a couple of special days that are being set aside in Canada and the UK for the purpose.

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