Daily Digest: 16 October 2012
We’ve searched the web for interesting articles, news, resources and tools – so you don’t have to. Below are today’s featured Daily Digest posts:
A Guide to Helping the Suicide-Bereaved
How can you best offer support to someone who is bereaved by suicide? What attitudes, translated into caring actions, can best facilitate the bereaved person’s coping in the immediate and short term, and their healing in the longer term? Read more…
How the Power of Expectations Can Allow You to ‘Bend Reality’
Chris Berdik, a science journalist and former staff editor at The Atlantic, begins with a simple premise: expectations matter. Read more…
Felix Baumgartner: when kids’ drawings reveal their ambitions
When he was five, the skydiving daredevil drew a picture of himself parachuting down to earth while his family watched. And he’s not the only child to predict their achievements in a drawing. Read more…
Link Between Creativity and Mental Illness Confirmed in Large-Scale Swedish Study
People in creative professions are treated more often for mental illness than the general population, there being a particularly salient connection between writing and schizophrenia. Read more…
Happiness for all
As evidence grows of the direct links between social inequalities and mental wellbeing, Catherine Jackson talks to people in counselling and public mental health about what makes people happy. Read more…
