New To Me – Teen Suicide Prevention Series
I say new to me only because I hadn’t seen it until yesterday. It’s an animated series aimed at telling the stories of teens dealing with a variety of issues called My Life is Worth Living.
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Shared Links (weekly) Jan. 2, 2022
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Another Reminder – To Reduce Suicide Risk for LGBTQ folks Just Accept Who They Are
So again, we see that simply accepting people for who they are has a pretty large impact on the risk of losing them to suicide. Why would we do anything else, for anyone?
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Sharing – Parents protesting ‘critical race theory’ identify a new target: Mental health programs
Maybe, most importantly, these parents seem to think they know better, that the mental health of their kids is something they can handle on their own. We know that isn’t true. We know the number of teens who have considered suicide is much higher than the number of parents who think their teen has. That doesn’t suggest that what we’ve been doing is working, it suggests that having mental health resources available at school is a net positive for everyone.
But that fact appears to be no match compared to stigma and conspiracy theories.
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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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