Shared Links (bi-weekly) June 28, 2026
For more like this, subscribe to the newsletter and get everything I’ve been sharing in your email.
-
-
Sharing – Mental health is not an individual matter, but a political one
It’s not that we shouldn’t look at the individual cases; we should. But we have to address the systemic harm done to mental health by these issues. We have to stop pretending that economic issues don’t create mental health risks and ignore the real harm we do when we do nothing to lift people out of poverty or end racism and economic deprivation beyond calling anyone who wants to do those things a socialist.
It’s not working. It’s not solving the real problem.
-
Sharing – Why We Oversimplify Psychology
As Whitney says, and I agree, the real work is in the complexities. That goes for our own mental health issues, healing from abuse, and social issues regarding these topics. We aren’t going to solve the mental health crisis by getting people to exercise more. It might help some people, but that one explanation will not work for everyone. We are all much more complex than that simple “fix” would lead us to believe, but believing it reduces the cognitive load of figuring out how to help millions of individuals.
-
Shared Links (bi-weekly) June 14, 2026
For more like this, subscribe to the newsletter and get everything I’ve been sharing in your email.
-
Sharing – Despite toxic reputation, our research shows podcasts can help men’s mental health
Despite the very well-known podcasts that are out there telling men to suck it up and quit whining about mental health, there are podcasts helping men with their mental health.
-
Sharing – The Youth Mental Health Crisis Has a Deeper Cause Than Social Media
The kids and phones thing was always an easy excuse, but the real mental health issue is much more complicated:
