Here's the final section of a letter to the FT from Brendan Kelly (Professor of Psychiatry, Trinity College Dublin) makes a crucial point...
While there is no doubting the problems of mental health, to treat all aspects of these personal travails as illness is to focus too much on the individual and allow our toxic society & workplaces to escape their share of the blame.
988 is a new phone number that recently went live to help people get help in a mental health crisis. Similar to 911, this line is dedicated for anyone in need of mental health assistance of any kind. It's 988.
Please boost to spread the news. Save someone's life.
A fifth-grader from #Brownsville ISD reported being bullied by his principal. Five days later, he was handcuffed and detained. He spent 3 days in solitary confinement.
Help ProPublica investigate access to mental health care.
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Are you #alone on Christmas? Do you feel #lonely and need some people to #chat? Subscribe to the hashtag # JoinIn (I made a space to avoid spamming it).
It is for connecting people who want to chat with anybody or want to share something these days. Often you find people with an open ear but also people who need some consolation or just distraction.
The Federal Trade Commission is STILL accepting complaints from the public related to the shortage of #Adderall#Vyvanse#Methylphenidate#Concerta and ADHD medications generally.
I'm a former teacher and nonviolence facilitator. I blog prolifically and create lotsa videos. I self-publish, and am trying to get a literary agent interested in my new novel... I like word play, so feel free to scroll past my silly puns.
What else? I'm an old punk rocker, a social justice activist and I eat vast quantities of #chocolate. Also, I write a lot about #ocd
This cartoon illustrates the real problem with our #NHS#mentalhealth services, the physical ones too.
We expect our health service to be the "support of last resort" for the devastating effects that modern society has on all of us. We can't save the NHS and make it all it can be without fundamental changes in our sick and broken society.
It can start by paying nurses and other workers what we're worth.
Mastodon really has helped me with my anxiety and this is not the only occasion. Thank you so much. You are important. You matter. A tiniest kind comment can make someone's day like mine. :bunhdheart: #Anxiety#GAD#MentalHealth