Shared Links (weekly) April 6, 2025
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Sharing – Mental Health Leveled Up in 2024
Those are good things. Properly dealing with the mental health crisis will require more research, tools, and treatment resources. These don’t grow overnight; achieving them takes years of hard work, so any progress is good news.
However, I agree with Time that the incoming Presidential Administration has not indicated a preference for continuing this work with research funding, new drug and therapy approvals, or respect for the science. That puts our progress at risk.
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Community Health Care Resources That Don’t Exist
As societies, we don’t care enough to do the hard work required to change it. If we cared, we wouldn’t have years and years of stories like this. We wouldn’t have millions of people having to choose between eating and their mental health or being dumped into a system that offers no help.
But we do, and very few leaders are even talking about making the massive investments necessary to overhaul the system.
Because we don’t care.
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Review – The Best Minds by Jonathan Rosen
It will leave you asking more questions than it provides answers, but these are questions we should be asking.
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Sharing – Is Friendship Therapy the Next Big Thing in Mental Health?
It sounds odd to me. But I realize that may be because I grew up and live in a society that doesn’t place enough value on friendship. If I want to value my friends more, why wouldn’t I do whatever I could to stay connected to my closest friends? Therapy could be a viable alternative to ending close friendships and losing connections that make a difference in our lives.
So, why not friendship therapy?
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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.
