Shawn Dobson, a licensed professional counselor in Smyrna, Georgia, created a 12-step support group, TraumAnon, which she streams weekly on TikTok and Facebook.
Steve Schlozman, a child psychiatrist at Dartmouth Health Children’s in Lebanon, NH, said he contacted clergymen, school counselors, and even football coaches to act as de facto therapists for children and adolescents suffering from depression.
Because therapists are on the front lines of the mental health crisis, we ask for your best advice on getting mental health help when you can’t find a therapist. Reporter Lindsey Bever has put all these tips together in one helpful guide. It turns out that there are a number of resources, including mental health apps, group therapy, support groups, and even your friends that can offer you support while you wait to work with a therapist.
“The act of going to therapy is not therapy. Therapy is about applying skills — thinking about different ways of understanding yourself between sessions,” said Lakeasha Sullivan, a clinical psychologist in private practice in Atlanta who He has written for The Washington Post. “The real work happens between sessions, and people can engage in that real work before seeing a professional.”
Learn more by reading the full article, “10 Ways to Get Mental Health Help During The Therapist Shortage.”
In the meantime, we’ve put together our own list of additional stories to help answer your mental health questions. You can find all our reports on mental health problems at the “mind” section of The Washington Post.
Election Stress Survival Guide
Election day is approaching. The results can be cause for celebration for some people and devastation for others. Regardless of your side, elections, particularly political disagreements between friends and family, can be stressful.
We have tips. For starters, it helps to know why so many of us are vulnerable to political disinformation. “Our psychology biases and biases make us vulnerable to falsehoods,” reports Richard Sima in the latest Brain Matters column. “As a result, misinformation is more likely to be believed, remembered, and then remembered, even after knowing it was false.”
And remember, don’t let the election result, or arguments over misinformation, ruin your Thanksgiving holiday. Experts say that the holiday table is not the place to have these conversations.
Instead, invite someone over for coffee and turn it into a one-on-one conversation. Avoid confrontations.
Social media highlights of my week it was this video of a horseshoe crab helping another, who had overturned. It’s a bit stressful to watch, but spoiler alert, it all works out in the end.
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