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Sharing – Top 10 Best Suicide Prevention Quotes Annotated by an Attempt Survivor
Dwade picks out some excellent quotes that have helped. Some of these were familiar to me, other were not. This one though, hit home for me: ““I wonder if it will rain after we die. When you kill yourself, you don’t know what happens next, afterward.” ~Albert Borris Once again, this one gives me an…
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College Student Dealing with Mental Health Issues? You Might be in the Majority.
This might just mean that the majority of the people around us right now are likely dealing with some sort of mental health struggle. This would also mean that there is nothing wrong with us, that we are the normal ones. That there is no weakness in us, or something lacking in us, but rather that we are having a normal reaction to a world that is causing anxiety and depression.
The fix is out there, not inside of us. We can only do what we can to cope, take care of ourselves, and find the tools that allow us to continue, but the real solution is much larger than that. The real solution will require much more. The real solution to mental health issues is fixing society and the world we live in.
If you want solutions, that’s where you start. How do we build a world where being anxious and depressed isn’t an understandable and normal reaction?
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Shared Links (weekly) July 10, 2022
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I Felt Alone Because My Depression Didn’t Look Like the Commercials
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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.
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James Bay: ‘To be a man talking about mental health still doesn’t feel accepted’
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Shared Links (weekly) June 19, 2022
