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Sharing – Feeling lonely? This can cost you up to six healthy years
ByMikeM September 28, 2026October 1, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

We know these facts. This is only the most recent research showing the negative impacts of loneliness and social isolation on mental and physical health. And yet, we live in a world that keeps making it harder and harder to connect with other human beings. In fact, we increasingly live in a world designed to dehumanize vast numbers of other people and determine our own value solely on the amount of time we spend working. That won’t create community.

We’re only harming ourselves.

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Sharing – Vulnerable adolescents face sharp drop in mental health service access
ByMikeM September 17, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

We are failing to protect kids from trauma, and them failing to provide proper resources to assist them after that trauma. There’s no nice way to put this failure.

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Sharing – Trauma survivors process angry expressions differently on a subconscious level
ByMikeM August 2, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

This doesn’t surprise me. Growing up in an abusive situation taught me to be on the lookout for danger, and nothing was more dangerous than people on the verge of being angry. It’s only natural that I’ve spent the rest of my life highly attuned to anger and trying to find ways to diffuse it before they hurt me or someone else.

Now we can show that it’s not just a learned behavior, but it’s hard-coded into our brains.

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Sharing – Mental health is not an individual matter, but a political one
ByMikeM June 25, 2026June 25, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

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.

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Sharing – Despite toxic reputation, our research shows podcasts can help men’s mental health
ByMikeM June 11, 2026June 10, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

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.

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Sharing – The broken pipeline of mental healthcare for LGBTQ teenagers
ByMikeM May 14, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

We talk a lot as a society about youth mental health, but our actions speak much louder, and the message they send is that we only really care about the mental health care of certain kids. Because if we cared about the mental health of all kids, we’d make different choices about making healthcare available and eliminating the actions that harm teens’ mental health.

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