I actually think this is a really important message. Because here’s the thing – you very well might be feeling absolutely awful right now. But that’s not because it’s Blue Monday, or you ate too much turkey at Christmas, or you haven’t signed up to a gym yet. Seasonal affective disorder is a very real,…
Relationship Experts Weigh in on the Right Time to Discuss Your Mental Health With Your Partner A Call to Action: We Must Strengthen America’s Mental Health Workforce On Being a Friend: Seeing Someone with Depression — and Seeing Myself Getting to Work When Depressed Parents Feel Forced To Relinquish Custody To Get Their Child Mental…
The article lists out a lot of the reasons, and I encourage you to read it, but this part I found to be very interesting because it reminded me of things I’ve done in some adult learning situations: “Way and her colleagues created “The Listening Project,” which aims to build connections among seventh-graders in New…
Left untreated in childhood and early adulthood, we end up with adults with symptoms that get continually worse over time. She says that ideas of how mental illness “should look” are so prevalent, it is difficult to believe that someone who doesn’t look mentally ill could be struggling. In fact, a study out of Duke…
New free online mental health supports – “If you are experiencing anxiety or depression, there are two new mental health support services available to people in Ontario.” Taxi drivers and hotel staff will be trained to help the fight against child sexual abuse Uncomfortable Talking About Depression How to Help Someone Who is Suicidal Abused…
I was more than a little shocked and saddened when I read the news in an email this week about the Louisiana chapter of Prevent Child Abuse shutting its doors. First and foremost, because, as the article gets into, the hard work of abuse prevention doesn’t seem to really move the needle when it comes…
