Posts Tagged ‘social support’
LGBTQ+ Mental Health: How To Support Your Youth
Learn about LGBTQ+ youth mental health issues like anxiety, depression, and suicide, the statistics, and how to support your teen.
Read MoreWhen You’re Struggling: A Mental Health Support Letter to Teens
This mental health support letter was written by Mary Vanderholm, an associate clinical mental health counselor at Sunrise, a residential treatment center in Utah. Dear Teen, Life can be hard, but it isn’t supposed to be miserable. If you have a bad day, that’s one thing. But if your bad days are happening more often…
Read MoreHow To Best Support and Accept Your LGBTQ Youth
With LGBTQ youth facing a unique set of challenges, it’s important that you support and accept your child, whether they’re lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning or queer. To understand the breadth and depth of issues these dynamic young people often face, consider several key statistics from the National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health…
Read MoreBuilding a Mental Health Support Network
Last Updated: February 2021 Many teenagers and their families are carrying the burden of anxiety, depression or substance abuse alone because building a mental health support network can be incredibly difficult for people overcoming a mental illness. It can sometimes be difficult to connect with and trust others, but a mental health support network is…
Read MoreThe Power of Mental Health Mentoring
Last Updated: January 2021 No one can fully understand the struggles of an adolescent mental illness unless they have been there themselves. For those young adults who have journeyed through a mental illness and come through the other side, they have invaluable advice and inspiration to share with those beginning or in the middle of…
Read MoreHow to Recognize & Overcome Quarantine Loneliness
As stay-at-home and social distancing continues, we are all feeling a bit of quarantine loneliness. Learn how to recognize & overcome quarantine loneliness.
Read MoreBlack Lives Matter, Social Identities and Leading in Times of Uncertainty
Black Lives Matter Once again, we have all been called to action to examine how we collectively and individually contribute to the systemic racism that has driven people into the streets to demand change. The murder of yet another black man, George Floyd, has ignited a long-smoldering wound, and every one of us has a…
Read MoreCan I Become an Advocate for Mental Health?
You have been through it all and have come out on the other side. Learn how to use your experiences with mental health to become an advocate.
Read MoreYour Personal Support Network
When you were a baby, you had a parent or two or maybe some guardians. They were the ones who helped with all of your grooming and feeding, they offered emotional support and also provided educational support. Whether you knew it or not, you had a personal support network then, and you have one now,…
Read MoreNo Need to Be Lonely
Before you attended treatment, lonely was your middle name. You felt alone all the time and without friends. But now you know how important having friends can be. And you have gained skills that will help you make friends, create a whole network of friends. From now on, you do not need to be lonely.…
Read MoreUpdating Your Support Network
Imagine that you had an app on your phone that helped you to manage everything else in your life. You used it when you first got your phone, but then you slowly used it less and less, and eventually forgot about it. How amazing would it be to discover it again and have it to…
Read MoreHow Much Screen Time is Too Much?
Everyone has some screen time during their day, but when does it start taking over your life? How much is too much? Learn more here.
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