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Sharing – Illinois Schools Allowing Students 5 Mental Health Days From School
The thing I want to support with this is not students being lazy or getting a free pass for skipping school, but just the simple fact that someone, somewhere, is normalizing the idea that sometimes, we just need a freaking break. That taking a breath for our own mental health is perfectly acceptable.
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Shared Links (weekly) August 29, 2021
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11 Tips to Get Ready for National Suicide Prevention Week/World Suicide Prevention Day
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Opinion | This Conversation Will Change How You Think About Trauma
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More Americans Would Like Mental Health Support But Can’t Afford It
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Shift Self-Talk: Don’t Listen to What Anxiety Says About You
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Men, self-care is not emasculating. Protect your mental health to protect your family
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The Trauma Of Rape Affects Recall. Could Training Police On This Help?
– This could help with children who’ve been sexually abused as well.
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MHA Launches New Toolkit to Support Student Mental Health
For those of you with kids, or who work in education, I thought this recent announcement might interest you: Today, MHA launches our annual Back to School Toolkit to give parents, teachers, and school personnel the tools and resources they need to support their children’s mental health. You can register and download the toolkit at…
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Reviews Elsewhere – 7 Books That Are Almost as Good as a Therapy Session
No, reading them won’t be the same as going to therapy, and I can’t say that I have read them all myself, but if you’ve read any of them, let us know what your thoughts were on the book.
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How We Talk to Ourselves Matters
As you read the rest of the article you’ll see how self-distancing conversations look a lot more like those conversations with friends I referenced earlier. Getting away from all of the “I” and “me” and fairly judging the situation quietly and calmly as if it was happening to someone else can put it into a perspective that we sometimes lose when we are thinking of ourselves, especially those of us who struggle with self-blame. Of course, then that self-blame turns to rumination which feeds into depression, and round and round we go.
There is a better way, and the examples given can help if we are willing to practice them. Especially the idea of reminding ourselves that we’ve already been through tougher, and more stressful situations and come out the other side.
