Article Contributed by L. Paul Mann | Published on Friday, May 14, 2021
Alternative rock fans can rejoice with the return of live music to the Ventura Fairgrounds. The exceptional event, courtesy of the Concert In Your Car series that features drive-in live music performances, features an impressive roster of Alt-rock performers.
Sound Mind Live is presenting their third annual Mental Health Music Festival on May 20th. The marathon concert will be hosted by comedian and actor Solomon Georgio, a diverse and exciting musical line-up including headliners All Time Low, Indie pop darlings Fitz and The Tantrums, and lovelytheband best known for their mega-hit “Broken.” The concert also features pop singer Charlotte Lawrence, Indie rocker Matthew Logan Vasquez, best known as the lead singer/songwriter/guitarist of Indie rock group Delta Spirit and new Indie rockers Ian Sweet. More acts are still being added to the line-up.
The Day Suicide Changed My Life Forever
If you re looking at that headline and thinking that suicide could never impact your life, please click through and learn more. That s what I thought too.
Update: I wrote this in 2009, one year after my best friend passed away, and post it each and every year on the anniversary of his death. For years, I ve done this for me. This year, I post it for you. I want you to know the signs. I want you to be aware of what people may be going through. I want you to avoid feeling how I do when I read it myself. Please take the time to care for one another.
The tragedy of suicide is heartbreaking. In instances of veteran suicide, the tragedy can be especially jarring because it shatters expectations.The idea of self-harm or taking one's life seems antithetical
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Part of the idea is to brace certain viewers for something that may remind them of their past, triggering the symptoms of conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
WHAT IS A TRIGGER WARNING?
A trigger warning is an alert that upcoming material containing distressing themes might trigger the details and emotion associated with a negative memory to come to mind.
Warnings supposedly prevent or minimise this distress.
Researchers wanted to find out if trigger warnings really do have this effect.
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But the study, conducted by psychologists at Flinders University and published in the journal Memory, indicates trigger warnings do not lessen the blow of recalling past trauma, whether it s memories of car accidents, violent altercations or sexual assaults.
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WASHINGTON Better coordination between police departments and mental health providers is needed to help those having mental health crises, witnesses said at a House hearing Thursday. Communities in Connecticut and across the country do their best to patch together various types or levels of mental health response with insufficient resources, said Charles Dike (pronounced Dee-KAY), MD, medical director of the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services. This patchwork typically relies too much on emergency rooms and police departments, and can result in patients languishing in emergency rooms, criminalization of persons with mental health and substance use disorders, and at times, the unnecessary and tragic loss of life.