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It’s The Time of the Year When We Need to Talk about Seasonal Affective Disorder
As I realize that those of us in the US will be turning the clocks back to standard time this weekend, and those of you in other Northern Hemisphere countries may have done the same last weekend, it’s important to remind ourselves of what that time change, and change in the amount of daylight to follow, can mean for folks.
So, I’m sharing a link and an image from the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) to remind us that SAD is a thing, and it can be mild and treated by taking some small actions, or it can truly interfere with living our lives and might require something more than eating healthier. Either way, keep this handy and know when the season might be affecting you.
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Shared Links (weekly) October 31, 2021
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Kurtis Gabriel, his fight with mental health, and why talking about it matters
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Marginalized Mental Health Matters: What Experts Want You to Know
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Understaffed State Psychiatric Facilities Leave Mental Health Patients in Limbo
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How stigma prevents people from accessing mental health care and what can be done about it
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Suicide Prevention Is a Million Caring Acts Far Before Crisis Intervention
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Sharing – “Tetris for Trauma” Viral Twitter Thread: A Master Class in Misleading Psych Research
Again, as Peter goes on to describe the issue is not that people might suddenly play some Tetris when dealing with trauma. That’s probably not going to harm them much, it’s that we, as a society, will come to expect that is the “magic pill” to help everyone deal with trauma and start dismissing it as something that’s easy to fix with some Tetris when it’s much, much more complicated than that. We shouldn’t lose sight of that fact.
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Shared Links (weekly) October 24, 2021
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We know kids are struggling with their mental health. Here’s how you can help
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Should students take mental health days? How should they be used?
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What Is Toxic Positivity, and How Can It Harm Your Mental Health?
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Tim Ferriss on How He Survived Suicidal Depression and His Tools for Warding Off the Darkness
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News avoidance during the COVID-19 pandemic is associated with better mental well-being
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Sharing – Trauma Healing Requires A Certain Amount Of Privilege
She lists out things like having insurance, having financial security, having a partner and friends from who she doesn’t have to hide her therapy sessions, etc.
As we just talked about yesterday, the reason less than half of all people dealing with mental health issues actually get any treatment at all is because they don’t have all of these things.
