‘When it comes to mental health, all countries are developing countries’
Supporting a Family Member with Serious Mental Illness Is Harder Than It Should Be
Books Under Review: Summer 2022 – “Reviews of five recent books reflecting various perspectives on the mental health system.”
What to Say, and Not to Say, to Someone Who’s Grieving – We don’t deal with grief well, we haven’t learned how to handle it for ourselves, let alone someone else. It’s time to learn.
Researchers surprised to find seven adult health conditions linked to childhood abuse
Taking a mental health day can be good for you – here’s how to make the most of one
Call 988: New suicide hotline can help as mental health crisis worsens
R. Kelly Sentencing: Being Abused Is Not an Excuse to Abuse Others
As the article explains, we feel empathy for people who are most like us. Children and other victims may not look like us as much as the abuser does. We might even know the abuser and not know the victim. The mentally lazy thing is to let our familiarity with the accused abuser blind us to the reality of what is happening. The way to get out of that is to focus on the humanity of the victim just as much. When you have empathy for everyone, regardless of whether they are like you or not, you can react to the situation in front of you instead of your bias about the people involved.
Everyone deserves that. No matter how different they may be from us.
I Felt Alone Because My Depression Didn’t Look Like the Commercials
What’s Wrong With Students? No—What’s Wrong With Us?– “Rather than blame students for a lack of well-being, colleges should consider institutional factors that contribute to the student mental health crisis.
James Bay: ‘To be a man talking about mental health still doesn’t feel accepted’
For many of us, child abuse was normal. Not because there is anything remotely acceptable about it, but because it happened to us. Turning away from our stories and ignoring our voices because you don’t want to think about it isn’t good enough.
We don’t have that choice. We deserve more than being kept silent in order for you not to be upset by our realities.
