🏋🏽♂️My strength class at the Malden Senior Center strength class is bursting with amazing energy!
🤩These incredible members (ages 65-95!) are proving that age is just a number. They're having a blast, staying strong, and building a wonderful community together.
From the archives, 2022: ”We know now from decades of clinical practice, and now over the last couple of decades of research, that the earlier that we affirm someone, the better outcomes they have in terms of mental health and physical health.” https://www.texasobserver.org/healthcare-for-trans-kids-is-not-abuse/
"Some have tried to jump off the buildings, others try to hang themselves in the rooms, one tried to hurt himself in the kitchen, and one took too many pills"
Amir, on the unfolding mental health crisis at Wethersfield, where around 580 migrants are being housed at the 80-year-old site, where asylum seekers can be held for 6-9 months.
2024 gaming backlog, no.19 - You Used To Be Someone (PC)
Short interactive narrative exploring the author's depression. You don't do much other than aimlessly wander a town and muse, but that is the point after all. Wild art and perspective. A neat insight.
How hard is it to stop taking #antidepressants? Amid often emotional discussion, existing studies are unclear. A meta-analysis from #CharitéBerlin & @UniKoeln now gives the most thorough answer to date as to how common discontinuation symptoms really are.
After months of struggling to keep if with work, private projects and life at all, I’m finally enjoying my days again. Playing a lot of fun video games, keeping projects in the drawer and relaxing a lot.
Listen to your body and take a break when he needs it. 🍀 #mentalhealth#mentalhealthmatters
Kāpiti Coast's last psychiatrist quits, as government fails to keep funding promise
The National Party's election manifesto included a commitment to increasing the number of psychiatric registrar places to 50 a year, up from 37 - but there was nothing in the Budget.
Good time for a reminder that 988 in the United States is not safe for everyone. They engage in nonconsensual rescue, aka they will notify the police without permission and without notifying the caller.
Looking for a trans inclusive book, film or TV programme? Have a look at TransActual's entertainment library for recommendations. If you don't see something you think we should add, let us know down in the comments!
Type in transactual.org.uk/entertainment or go to the link in our bio and find it in the 'new from TransActual' section.
The recording of today's meditation class about taming the wandering mind, is now available through the Transformational Mediation Group on Telegram. - https://t.me/TMGmeditations/359
Parents are increasingly taking their children out of school & home schooling them, with the most reported reason being the mental health of their children.
To some extent, the pandemic normalised the idea of children learning from home, so we might wonder whether the threshold for concern prompting a turn to home schooling has lowered.
But, it also suggests the impact on children of the myriad crisis that have engulfed school in recent years.
'Because of saneism, mad people are often denied the ability to define their own experience — as evidenced by the push to cure autistic people of something much of the community doesn’t view as a disease. Of her own experience, Yakas said that the messaging she received was, “I have a broken brain. Nothing that I’m saying is real. Everything is irrational.” '
Mourners can now speak to an #AI version of the dead. But will that help with grief? Selina Sykes reports. FRANCE24's Monte Francis speaks to Tomasz Hollanek, Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge about the benefits, risks and future developments of AI clones. #death#bereavement#mentalhealth#tech