Shared Links (weekly) Mar. 30, 2025
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No, kids don’t get over it without help
The truth is that abuse victims can be resilient, but generally not on their own. We also know that it doesn’t end there.
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Sharing – How to Spot Misinformation About Mental Health Online
Over the years, I’ve learned a lot about mental health from online sources. I’ve also seen a lot of false information being shared as well. Some of it is from misunderstanding evidence, but most comes from someone with something to sell. There have been far too many people sharing quick “cures” and lifehacks that will treat depression and anxiety and heal us from trauma that have gone viral, and far fewer honest voices telling the truth about the solutions that are available to support mental health across society, and how complicated it can be when what the media says will work doesn’t work for an individual, because they are, in fact, an individual.
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Shared Links (weekly) Mar. 16, 2025
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Sharing – Language That Deepens Trauma Instead of Healing It
The amount of courage and effort it took to tell you deserves more than a dismissive comment.
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Sharing – How to use mindful practices to manage dissociation
I’ve never been taken to mediation the way other people have. I don’t particularly like the experience. It makes me profoundly uncomfortable.
I don’t know why; I know it doesn’t seem to work for me. I wonder, however, if part of my issue is that I need to live with some low-level dissociation. Maybe I’m so used to being slightly detached that focusing my attention entirely inward is too much. It’s overwhelming. It’s too much of a risk.
