While this video is extremely harmful, this level of homophobia is not typical of users on the app. Most users face less direct homophobia, such as sexualization of minors or extreme criticism of relationships.
“Helicopter parents” refers to parents hovering over their children like helicopters, monitoring their children’s actions, providing protection and help, and always ready to come forward to solve problems for their children, hoping that everything can be under their control. But do children need this helicopter parenting?
Mental health. This is a thing that we as humans all deal with to some degree. It’s okay to get sad. It’s okay to get angry. It’s okay to want to cuddle with a puppy. Now, unless you’re scared...
Quakerism values the importance of reflection. Reflection is not only looking in the mirror or a shadow staring back at you, it is taking time to sit and think about yourself, decisions you made, the positive...
Psychohistorians at Psychology Today define intergenerational, or transgenerational, trauma as the unconscious transmission of trauma from one generation to the next. Intergenerational trauma affects groups...
Loneliness is one of the most common mental health conditions. It is common but never harmless for the long-term lonely. How can we get out of loneliness?
According to the National Alliance of Mental Health, it is estimated that one in five adults in America experience mental illness (that’s about 43.8 million adults in a year). Mental illnesses in adults look different than they do in adolescents, particularly teenagers.
I never quite understood how a white abyss, a rainstorm that persists, everything drenched and weighed down, (heavy) could not have the same effect on the impressionable hearts of those who look out at the rain and smile.
I believe that there is an erasure of mental health awareness amongst families of color. From what I have heard and observed from my family and others, a high percentage of people of color associate mental health illnesses with “whiteness.”
