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Sharing – How to use mindful practices to manage dissociation
ByMikeM February 28, 2025February 27, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

I’ve never been taken to mediation the way other people have. I don’t particularly like the experience. It makes me profoundly uncomfortable.

I don’t know why; I know it doesn’t seem to work for me. I wonder, however, if part of my issue is that I need to live with some low-level dissociation. Maybe I’m so used to being slightly detached that focusing my attention entirely inward is too much. It’s overwhelming. It’s too much of a risk.

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Sharing – Why resilience won’t solve the mental health crisis among young people
ByMikeM January 11, 2025January 11, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

I’ve said it before and I’ll keep repeating it until everyone gets it. Exercise, meditation, resilience, and emotional intelligence are great things to do for our mental health. Still, they will never raise someone out of poverty, eliminate oppression, sexism, racism, etc., or clean up pollution and eliminate climate disasters. We cannot teach kids to be more resilient and do nothing to minimize the amount of trauma they are dealing with every day.

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Sharing – The Best Way to Reduce Anxiety Is to Make Your Brain Feel Safe
ByMikeM June 28, 2024June 27, 2024 Reading Time: 2 minutes

I think back to my childhood and the sexual and physical violence I was subjected to. I struggle with anxiety because my brain is always going back to that time – a time when I was not safe! The things my brain learned then weren’t a failure of mental health; they were survival instincts. They were healthy reactions to an unsafe environment. My current challenge is unlearning them now that I am no longer in that unsafe environment. Asking me to do that while I was unsafe would have been dumb. The anxiety was trying to keep me alive.

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UK Study Shows Online Therapy Works as Well As In-Person and Why That Matters
ByMikeM January 31, 2024February 1, 2024 Reading Time: 2 minutes

They need to be better about that if we are going to make any kind of dent in the mental healthcare accessibility problem. Online therapy can be a difference maker if it can help people quicker and cheaper and with the same effectiveness. Those are the keys right now to improving the care system for all of us.

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Have You Used a Mental Health App Successfully?
ByMikeM October 11, 2023August 28, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

So, dear readers. rather than assuming mental health apps don’t work because I haven’t done a good job of using them and letting them help me, let’s have a conversation about what mental health apps have, or haven’t, worked for you, and why. I’m curious to know what the crowd has to say, and what advice you would give others.

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There’s No Magic Pill
ByMikeM August 8, 2022August 8, 2022 Reading Time: 3 minutes

Mental health is complicated. The solution to one individual case is complicated. The solution to the lack of resources is complicated. Telling people to get more exercise, let alone selling them the diet and workout that will solve all their mental health issues, is a fraud, isn’t it? Saying that we simply need to give everyone free therapy without addressing the serious shortage of therapists is as well.

Anyone who suggests there is a simple solution to the mental health problem facing us as a country and the world is not to be taken seriously.

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