😅Check out my strength class at the Malden Senior Center! These rockstars, ages 65-95 prove that age is just a number when it comes to having fun and staying strong.
Photo-shoot this morning: U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy at an Axios forum on youth mental health, interviewed by Caitlin Owens, Axios health reporter.
Doctor mistakenly operated on a kid's tongue instead of finger.
How can a doctor commit such a mistake. It's such a traumatic experience for the kid!!!
A Doctor operated on 4-year-old patient's tongue instead of her finger in Kerala and faced public uproar due to which he got suspended.
I'm pretty damn sure that other than the notion of "reinforcing a behavior consistently helps form it and sporadically helps lock it in," I will NEVER use any of these words in my actual work.
Also, does your #mentalHealth#therapist need to know the words homoscedasticity and heteroscedasticity? Probably not unless they're planning on being a spelling champion. I've read a bazillion research papers these past few years and have never seen them.
For those who aren't familiar, in the US, the Social Work Test and the #NCE basically cover the same material (lots of YouTube study guides cover both in one). So I suspect they have similar flaws too.
📋ADHDers love curating Reading Lists to stay on track.
🫣Going back to them, though, is another story.
Have you tried giving yourself little rewards when you check off read items from the list? Because they totally count as mini victories! 🥳
It's true that neurodivergent minds are energized and motivated when they set and execute goals, gain achievements, communicate, create, strategize, innovate, or serve and connect with people.
But the constant whirlwind of killer ideas and endless possibilities, without the reigns of process, structure, and execution, can get debilitating.
🧰 To help you crush those distractions, we've curated a list of helpful tools available for you to use on our browser.
Building systems and leveraging productivity tools can set you up for success and manage your scattered thoughts.
Our built-in Reading List is one such example, read the blog for more👇
If you're struggling, reach out and seek support. You'll find the details of some trans and/or LGBTQ+ specific helplines on the TransActual wellbeing hub. Type in https://transactual.org.uk/wellbeing/ to find them.
Really, enough of putting the blame on abstract agents like technological objects and start finding the real culprits: stressed or incompetent teachers, corrupt or incompetent politicians, sloppy or absent parents. This obsessive mania for wanting to put non-human causes at the root of human problems should be understood as a symptom of something much more serious.
Studies that support Haidt’s thesis are prominent, and information that does not conform is omitted or downplayed. In Figure 1.11, Haidt plots the percentage of Nordic teens with high psychological distress and highlights its rise between 2010 and 2015 (from Health Behavior in School Children data), especially among girls. However, the overall results of the HBSC, which surveyed more than 100,000 youths worldwide, does not show an increase in psychological symptoms or a decrease in life satisfaction between 2002 and 2014. These indicators are rather stable, with, at best, only a slight increase (see, studies by Dierckens and colleagues or Cosma and colleagues).
Haidt often relegates non-conforming information to the endnotes, like the fact that there “are a few studies that report little to no effect of screen use on sleep” (Chapter 5, note 36).
Researchers who focus on the complex relationships between various technologies and adolescents’ wellbeing have no evidence that engagement with digital technology is resulting in worse impacts on adolescents’ mental health problems over time. There is only a little evidence for the negative effects of digital screen engagement on adolescent wellbeing."
The internet and time spent online is often cited as one of the biggest contributing factors to low self esteem and poor mental health, but a new study has found the opposite to be true.
“Nearly everyone seems to think that internet-powered technologies are driving an epidemic of ill-being and mental health problems,” said lead study author Dr. Matti Vuorre, assistant professor of social psychology at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, in an email to @CNN.
“Our study of over two million individuals from 160+ countries runs contrary to this idea.” Here’s more on the findings.
Going Sane in a Crazy World
Richard Heinberg May 14, 2024
"...The consequences of our adoption of consumerist, growth-seeking industrialism will ultimately be a crash—hopefully only partial and temporary—of society and nature. That’s not a crystal-ball prophecy; it’s a mathematical near-certainty given the fundamental contradiction between the ways in which ecosystems work and the ways modern industrial societies work. In fact, the crash has already started (via climate change, resource depletion, and biodiversity loss)...
As humanity encounters serious impacts from its collective craziness, people whose mental health is already at risk will likely suffer more than others. But even otherwise psychologically stable people will be emotionally challenged as their eco-social context is disrupted or shattered..."
My gramps gave me the best advice I gonna try and follow .
Here it is ..........
Jaden .Deal with shit when it happens. Don't think about it before or after .
Fck ! That fking hits ! That's it !!!!! That fking simple!!!
Yall can do this you gon be happy af .
My grammpa a genius 👏🏾 🙌🏾
I need a hashtag I can share dis shit wide ???? #mentalhealth#mentalhealthawarenessmonth
Dogs Placed in Elementary Schools Making a Big Difference in Academics and Mental Health for Michigan Students
"Research shows the presence of a trained dog lowers children’s stress, fosters a positive attitude toward learning, and smooths interactions between classmates."
I think this NPR story comes close to getting everything right about the dilemmas of involuntary treatment of psychiatric illnesses. I highly recommend it.
May is a time to raise awareness of and reduce the stigma surrounding behavioral health issues, as well as highlighting the ways how mental illness and addiction can affect all of us – patients, providers, families, and our society at large.
More tails from the misery that is indefinite imprisonment in England and Wales. Introduced by Labour (Blunkett) and since repealed with no thought for those imprisoned.