Suicide research often focuses on the "imitation effect," where media reports on suicide increases suicide rates. But there is also the *Papageno Effect,* showing media can play a protective role in preventing suicide by tell stories of overcoming suicidal crises. #cptsd tinyurl.com/3a9c3fzc

Effects of media stories of hope and recovery on suicidal ideation and help-seeking attitudes and intentions: systematic review and meta-analysis

Media narratives of hope and recovery from suicidal crises appear to have a beneficial effect on suicidal ideation in individuals with some vulnerability, but there is insufficient evidence regarding ...

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Suicide research often focuses on the "imitation effect," where media reports on suicide increases suicide rates. But there is also the *Papageno Effect,* showing media can play a protective role in preventing suicide by tell stories of overcoming suicidal crises. #cptsd tinyurl.com/3a9c3fzc

Effects of media stories of hope and recovery on suicidal ideation and help-seeking attitudes and intentions: systematic review and meta-analysis

Media narratives of hope and recovery from suicidal crises appear to have a beneficial effect on suicidal ideation in individuals with some vulnerability, but there is insufficient evidence regarding ...

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Excellent read, IMO. Covers a lot of ground, from silence, to AI’s sycophancy, to the weight of actual human presence. FWIW, I see my recovery as gaining skills to be fully human with other humans. AI could play a role (?), but those roles could be humans too. #cptsd tinyurl.com/3yr4a2k5

The Dead Silence of AI Therapy

What happens when our therapists are no longer able to feel?

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The social taboo around suicide doesn't just silence conversations. It can teach us to silence ourselves – to look away from our own painful thoughts rather than investigate them with compassion & curiosity. Self-silencing shame plays no role in self-compassionate inquiry or recovery. #cptsd

The social taboo around suicide doesn't just silence conversations. It can teach us to silence ourselves – to look away from our own painful thoughts rather than investigate them with compassion & curiosity. Self-silencing shame plays no role in self-compassionate inquiry or recovery. #cptsd

Work (in education) brought me to Japan for the summer. The mountains were great, the digital detox was nice too. I'm still a work in progress, but I'm proud of my growth in the past few years. Healing is possible. #cptsd

Recovery for survivors often means looking beyond crisis moments to our self-beliefs, many of which are trauma-adaptations & needlessly cruel. Passive suicide ideation is far from "passive" – its state of distress that deserves our attention, compassion, and curiosity. #cptsd #NAMI #recovery

Recovery for survivors often means looking beyond crisis moments to our self-beliefs, many of which are trauma-adaptations & needlessly cruel. Passive suicide ideation is far from "passive" – its state of distress that deserves our attention, compassion, and curiosity. #cptsd #NAMI #recovery

Found this insightful. The history on the 80s "SSRI revolution" & pushback on the "chemical imbalance" model of depression was interesting. Happy to hear what other folks think. #cptsd www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvcz...

Why We Can’t Stop Arguing About S.S.R.I.s | 'The Opinions' Podcast

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Welcome to Writing the Dawn — where biodiversity, neurodiversity & creativity meet. A neurodivergent-led community for writing, creating & sharing. Neuro-affirming, anti-racist, LGBTQIA+ affirming. Workshops, coaching & body doubling coming soon. Looking forward to connecting soon!

Trauma recovery asks us to fall in love w/ ourselves-- but not in a superficial or narcissistic sense. It asks us to fall in real love with ourselves-- love based on deep authenticity, visibility, & commitment. The kind of love that is more behavior than feeling. Agape, not eros.

What’s more infuriating to a survivor than someone mistaking privilege for discipline, a safe upbringing for courage, or shaming others as wisdom? Remember, their misunderstanding doesn't erase what we survived, what happened to us mattered. Their privilege doesn't diminish our strength. ❤️‍🩹 #cptsd

What’s more infuriating to a survivor than someone mistaking privilege for discipline, a safe upbringing for courage, or shaming others as wisdom? Remember, their misunderstanding doesn't erase what we survived, what happened to us mattered. Their privilege doesn't diminish our strength. ❤️‍🩹 #cptsd

Every moment of self-compassion is a step towards recovery. Be kind to yourself, always. ❤️‍🩹 I’ll be taking a break for a bit 🙏🏼. Still working my recovery, day at a time.

One of the cruelties of trauma recovery is realizing that perfection was never going to make our childhoods whole. We were deceived, perhaps for decades - most of recovery is acceptance and grieving. The light: We have a chance to build a life now, based on the values we choose. #cptsd

One of the cruelties of trauma recovery is realizing that perfection was never going to make our childhoods whole. We were deceived, perhaps for decades - most of recovery is acceptance and grieving. The light: We have a chance to build a life now, based on the values we choose. #cptsd

It's never gonna be fair that trauma recovery requires fixing what other people broke. But unfair isn't the same thing as impossible. We can acknowledge the injustice & we can heal. Every small recovery step forward is a refusal to let others' actions continue programming our lives. ❤️‍🩹 #cptsd

It's never gonna be fair that trauma recovery requires fixing what other people broke. But unfair isn't the same thing as impossible. We can acknowledge the injustice & we can heal. Every small recovery step forward is a refusal to let others' actions continue programming our lives. ❤️‍🩹 #cptsd

Many recoveries need to learn to harness the f*ck ’ems. We can use anger to set boundaries and protect our recovery values. Its a fuel we can use to consistently turn to healing, so f*ck ’em, we ain't abandoning ourselves. A spite recovery can still be a good recovery. #cptsd

My piece was picked up by Know Thyself, Heal Thyself! From Tony Robbins to Mel Robbins, the mindset grift is everywhere. Despite this, adopting a new mindset offers surprisingly little strategic guidance for trauma recovery; too often, it’s used to bully and shame survivors. tinyurl.com/uacast26

The Grift of the Social Media Self-Help Coach

Healing from Trauma is Not a Mindset Hack

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My piece was picked up by Know Thyself, Heal Thyself! From Tony Robbins to Mel Robbins, the mindset grift is everywhere. Despite this, adopting a new mindset offers surprisingly little strategic guidance for trauma recovery; too often, it’s used to bully and shame survivors. tinyurl.com/uacast26

The Grift of the Social Media Self-Help Coach

Healing from Trauma is Not a Mindset Hack

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Excellent article, worth a read. "One of the cruelest surprises of trauma recovery is that healing often makes you less functional before you feel better." "Yet the reality is, forgiveness is not a milestone, and it is not required. Healing comes through mourning." Much more! tinyurl.com/yc84ftu8

Hard Truths About Trauma Recovery That Can’t Be Positivity-Coached Away

Healing has been aestheticized into something almost unrecognizable

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Excellent article, worth a read. "One of the cruelest surprises of trauma recovery is that healing often makes you less functional before you feel better." "Yet the reality is, forgiveness is not a milestone, and it is not required. Healing comes through mourning." Much more! tinyurl.com/yc84ftu8

Hard Truths About Trauma Recovery That Can’t Be Positivity-Coached Away

Healing has been aestheticized into something almost unrecognizable

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"People have this idea that PTSD is about what happened to us, and it is— but CPTSD is mostly defined by what it gets us to believe. The lies it gets us to believe." useyourdamnskills.com/2026/06/11/c...

CPTSD is a lying liar that lies.

CPTSD will straight up lie to us.  Thats’ what CPTSD does best, actually. Lie.  It lies to us about who we are.  It lies to us about what we deserve.  It lies to us about what w…

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"People have this idea that PTSD is about what happened to us, and it is— but CPTSD is mostly defined by what it gets us to believe. The lies it gets us to believe." useyourdamnskills.com/2026/06/11/c...

CPTSD is a lying liar that lies.

CPTSD will straight up lie to us.  Thats’ what CPTSD does best, actually. Lie.  It lies to us about who we are.  It lies to us about what we deserve.  It lies to us about what w…

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Before recovery, while struggling with professional impostor syndrome, #growthmindset seemed like the answer. But it never quite solved my problems. Only recently, I discovered much of the mindset hype was unfounded. Here's some things I've been reading & thinking: #cptsd tinyurl.com/4uw3pbyj

Debate Arises over Teaching "Growth Mindsets" to Motivate Students

Research shows conflicting data on the impact of the intervention, but a major new study confirms it can work

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The “could haves” will eat survivors alive if we don’t treat who we are right now with empathy, compassion & dignity. The toxic combination of hindsight and fantasy will derail the commitments we've made to ourselves today. Work on today. That's where all of our power lies. #cptsd #recovery

The “could haves” will eat survivors alive if we don’t treat who we are right now with empathy, compassion & dignity. The toxic combination of hindsight and fantasy will derail the commitments we've made to ourselves today. Work on today. That's where all of our power lies. #cptsd #recovery

On the writer's anvil: Shame lacks an internal fight response. Shame’s action is to shrink into nothingness, to blink out of existence, to crawl into a hole. The pain of shame’s exposure and visibility can only be resolved through invisibility, through self-erasure. #lifewriting #cptsd

So many of my wonderful @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social colleagues in this issue. #lifewriting www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Birth and Death: Writing the Edges of Life

Birth and death may be the only certainties in life. Yet in life writing, the task of representing birth and death is an uncertain one. They are fundamental events but are also, in many ways, quite...

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