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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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Shared Links (weekly) August 24, 2025
ByMikeM August 24, 2025August 23, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

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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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Sharing – New federal data show a decline in teen suicide
ByMikeM July 31, 2025July 31, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

It turns out that teens with safe places to talk about mental health and better access to resources are helped. There is still a lot of work to be done to close the gap between teens who need help and those who can get it, but this is the work that makes a difference in the lives of everyone when it comes to mental health. It’s also hard work. None of the possible reasons for the lower rate discussed in the article are overnight solutions. They take time, money, work, and dedication. Putting a warning label on the internet is easy, but it’s not clear that it has any effect.

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