Laura’s reasoning for reading books is pretty sound: “A lot of them also show that the darkness is not only survivable but manageable in the long term. It’s one thing to say, “I got past this and you can, too.” It’s an entirely different thing to acknowledge that the journey may be less about getting…
There is a reason for this, but you may not like it. Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States, and it’s the on the rise, but we have no idea why. As the article goes on to explain, we spend far more on research for diseases that kill far fewer…
Whatever you may think about online or telephone-based therapy, if it gets more guys to actually talk to someone about their mental health, I’m encouraged by it. “Stereotypes about men not talking about their emotions and phrases like “man up” add even more stigma than what already surrounds mental health. Young men busy with their…
Stigma kills. The fear of being judged for having depression leads people to suicide. Not in every case, but that it happens at all is sad. I don;t know if what Kate’s sister says about her death is true, but I’ve heard plenty of similar stories, from people a lot less well-known. “In the end,…
I’ve been saying this for a while now, too. “We want to think that if we do the right thing, it’s all going to be OK,” says Hamby. “It’s threatening to see other people not be OK, so we want to come up with an explanation of why that experience won’t happen to us.” It’s…
As this reviewer points out, American Snake Pit by Daniel J. Tomasulo is a poignant, needed reminder to America about the benefit of group homes for people who are living with serious mental illness and developmental disabilities. Told from his first-person perspective in managing and running such a home early in his career as a psychologist,…
