Shared Links (weekly) Sept. 1, 2024
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Sharing – Write When You’re in it, Publish When You’re Out. A Guide to Blogging About Mental and Physical Illness
I love hearing more voices talking about mental health and seeing more stories and lived experiences shared. What I love more is people caring for themselves and doing what is good for their mental health.
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Before you can commit to self-care there is a prerequisite
Even just the headline made me think of those days when I was in my 20s, dealing with the trauma and shame of my childhood and the major depression that I was not getting proper treatment for. I didn’t take care of myself. I didn’t even meet the basic needs of sleep, food, etc., because, in my mind, I wasn’t worth it. I didn’t deserve to live a healthy, content life. It wasn’t that I didn’t understand what self-care was or why it was necessary; I lacked a belief that I deserved it.
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Sharing – Fans of fitness influencers exercise more – but they’re also more depressed
For every headline or expert who touts the “cure” to depression, anxiety, or other issues, there are always a large number of individuals who weren’t helped by it. In this study, we also have to recognize that social media accounts focused on fitness might be making things worse for people, causing them to obsess over their appearance and creating unhealthy relationships with food.
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Sharing – Internet access is linked to higher well-being, new global study reveals
These observational studies clearly tell us that being online could be both good and bad for us, and that may depend on what kind of shape we were in when we opened the browser today and what we chose to do while online.
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Sharing – Practical tips if you find yourself doomscrolling online news and social media
I think this comment is correct: If you’re finding it hard to cope with the news and social media, you’re not alone. It isn’t easy to know when to stop reading the news. The line between being informed and obsessed with it to the point of impacting our lives and mental health is a fine…
