I lived in Oregon until earlier this year, Portland has a huge problem with homelessness and lack of mental health resources, which is why so many people wind up in jail at least temporarily. This is what happens when you don’t have mental health resources available though. A REPORT RELEASED by Disability Rights Oregon (DRO)…
This is a really interesting, but quite lengthy, read. Brandwatch put together a large survey of UK social media conversations. We analyzed over 12 million conversations to understand how mental health is discussed online. A couple of interesting takeaways I got, though I’m sure you may come away with different ones: Clearly events like Mental Heath…
This is why, if you can, its important to tell your story. Researchers, led by Emma McGinty, Ph.D., M.S., with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, looked at the effectiveness of various communication strategies in reducing stigma and increasing public support for mental health policies. They found that communication strategies using personal…
They may be on to something – “A group of international psychologists have challenged the classification of ‘major depression’ and argue it would be better managed if it was broken down into 12 separate disorders. “We argue that depression is not a single disease, it is a heterogeneous syndrome, with patients differing remarkably in symptom…
This goes double, triple, maybe more, for mental health news and studies. In today’s New York Times, Emily Parker writes about something that we all sort of know but don’t want to face: When it comes to fake news going viral, Facebook, Twitter, and Google aren’t the entire problem. We are. We want the quick…
This is important if someone you know has survived an attempt, or is even going through struggles with their mental health: I love that you love me. I love that you accept it has happened and haven’t buried it under the carpet. But please, don’t mention it. My suicide attempt is mine. There are so many emotions…
