Sharing – Addressing Childhood Anxiety as Early as Kindergarten Could Reduce Its Harmful Impacts
Kids who show the signs of struggling with mental health issues do a heck of a lot better if we intervene. Sadly, we don’t do it enough. Sometimes it’s because we don’t have any intervention to offer them. There are no resources available to far too many families. Other times parents and adults are afraid to look for help due to the stigma associated with mental health issues, hoping the kid will grow out of it.
Sharing – Hot Take: The Teens Are the Sanest of Us All
The real question is, how do you “treat” this level of anxiety when feeling anxious is a perfectly normal reaction to what you see in front of you every day? Should we even be treating it versus accepting it and teaching young people coping skills instead?
I don’t know the answer to that, but I do know that my own anxiety isn’t going anywhere. I’m learning to live with it, some days better than others, but I don’t see why I should think of my anxiety as an abnormal reaction. It makes perfect sense to me.
Shared Links (weekly) May 29, 2022
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Moms whose daughters died by suicide urge parents to have ‘difficult’ conversations with their kids
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Mental Health Awareness Month: My Story of Living with Anxiety
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Diagnosed With Depression? Here Are My Top 10 Must-Follow Social Media Accounts
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Inside A Criminal Psychiatric Centre (Mental Health Documentary) | Real Stories
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How Traumatic Childhood Experiences Affect People in Adulthood
Sharing – Taking control of your own mental health can improve it
I found this study interesting because I do believe the thing that has pushed me from mild anxiety or depression into a worse state is not believing I could do anything. Not having any hope, in other words. These folks sound something very similar: