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Cancel Culture Exists Online, It’s Just Not What You’re Expecting
It's enough to make you just give it all up and walk away. That, to me, is cancel culture. I know there's a lot of talk about cancel culture and whether it even exists or not, but frankly, to me, the...
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So, How Are You Doing?
But, that's not what I want to talk about today, because, frankly, I think we're all talked out on the subject, or at least I feel like I'm all talked out right now. If you don't realize that anxiety...
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Where Do We Really Spend Money on Mental Health Research?
Thanks to Professor Miranda Wolpert for sharing some of the details of a recent study looking at the details of mental health research funding. For me these three points underscore some of the issues...
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When it Comes to Abuse, Trafficking, and Violence, Do We Have a Race and...
What I want to address, however, is how our society defines victim, and how it leaves far, far too many people behind. That article above is a great example. How many people, if asked about sex...
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Want to Lower LGBTQ Youth Suicide Risks? Just Accept Who They Are
Since it's Pride Month, I've seen a few references on social media to the higher rates of suicide of LGBTQ youth. I've also seen a number of explanations for it, and things that you could do to help,...
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Why I Took Part in the AFSP Virtual Overnight Event
It was the stories. It was all of those people doing this in memory of someone they lost. Or, like me, in memory of the fact that we are still here instead of leaving others to tell our stories. In...
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It’s Hard to Have Hope Right Now
We need each other now, as always. We need our community. We need our connections. We need to know that we are not alone in this. So, let me, in the midst of my own exhaustion, do this one thing. If...
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Running on Fumes
I heard someone on the radio use this phrase to describe herself as we were out grabbing a few last-minute items to assist with riding out Hurricane Ida. She was talking about evacuating her home in...
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Why Did So Many Adults Minimize the Abuse in US Gymnastics?
So, when I look at a highly successful program like US gymnastics, like Penn State football, like USA Swimming, like English Youth Football, etc. I think we can clearly see this. Why be such a downer,...
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The Many Ways We Invalidate Someone’s Story
We could also talk about abuse here too, and all the ways our stories all invalidated. How many of these have you heard from folks who find out about the abuse you dealt with as a child, or even as an...
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Concentric Circles of Trauma
No, the easiest way to break up those circles, as any kid who threw rocks into the water can tell you, is to throw another rock and create new concentric circles starting from a different location....
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The Truth Is, We Aren’t OK and Probably Won’t Be For Awhile
So, what do we do? We can definitely take advantage of the suggestions made by Lindsey Holmes in that HuffPost link above. We can also acknowledge that without available therapists, many of us are...
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Why I Don’t Tell People I’m Struggling Either
When Laura talks about the reactions she's afraid of getting she is 100% correct. A big part of why I hesitate often to tell people when I'm struggling, feeling incredibly anxious, depressed, or just...
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It’s Been a Rough Week So I’m Reminding Myself of These Things
Even when there are things in the world that I do not have the power to change, I use my own words to remind myself that there are things I CAN do. I can look after the people around me. I can add my...
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Quick Thought #19 – Loneliness and Toxic Positivity
I don't think that's it. Not completely anyway. I think the real damage social media has done is to make toxic positivity popular. For every person celebrating their "good vibes only" lifestyle, there...
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Why SEL Should Not Be Controversial
While I'm not an expert by any means, I look at it similarly to how I look at mental health in the workplace. You simply aren't going to get the best results from people until you recognize that they...
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Want to Support Someone But Don’t Know How, Maybe Just Try “Plus-One”
I recently caught up on some podcasts and came across this idea from game designer and author Jane McGonigal. During an interview on People I (Mostly) Admire, she and Steven Levitt talked more about...
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Some Conversations Are Easier Online
I have understood this for a long time. I can write here and don't have to see anyone react immediately when they read it. I can see their reaction when I tell someone about being abused in person. I...
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Friendships Matter Much More than the Value We Place on Them
It's worth thinking about your friends and recognizing that we need all kinds of friends. We need loose connections, and we need tight connections. We need long-term friends, and we need friends for a...
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There’s a New Form of Stigma Around Mental Health and It’s Extremely Dangerous
If you can't read that, or Twitter starts blocking embeds again - at the mention of a pediatric psychiatric hospital Rep. Cox said "You might want to check that place for grooming". Yes, the very...
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