I am honored to have my Twitter feed included in this list of 50 Best Twitter Feeds for Psychology Majors! Go check out the other 49, broken out into these categories: News; Organizations; Patients; and Professionals.
Best Tweets for Trauma and PTSD Survivors is a weekly Friday feature. My selections are entirely subjective, and I know it will never be possible to include every great resource tweeted. But I can try! I’ve personally read all tweeted links, and believe them to be of great value.
Disclaimer: I am in no way responsible for content found on any other website. Stay safe, and don’t follow links if you believe you might be triggered by them. Also, I will not be re-checking links from older Best Tweets posts, and if the site’s archived URL is different from the one I’ve provided here, you may need to do a search on their site.
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@healingtrauma “Rowing harder
doesn’t help if the boat is headed
in the wrong direction.” ~ Kenichi Ohmae
Six Standalone Tweets to Ponder
@WisdomalaCarte “An intention is a quality of consciousness that you bring to an action.” ~ Gary Zukav
@ArrInspirations “The only way to change the future is by inhabiting the present moment.” ~ Jon Kabat Zinn
@soulseedz “One of the reasons we struggle with endings is because we engage in mortal combat with time.”
@GabeBerman “Spirituality, then, is nothing more than giving up your resistance to what is.” ~ Annemarie Postma
@back2incomplete “When you deal with people, always consider whether you are spreading light and love, or whether you are limiting it.”
@DrAthenaStaik “Your presence in heart and mind is one of the most precious gifts of love you can give.”
Linked Tweets
Depression in the News
@SarahEOlson2009 [Low] Vitamin D Levels Linked to Depression Risk
[SEO: If you don’t get out into the sun much, or drink milk, vitamin D supplements are not expensive. Doctors seldom test for vitamin D levels; ask your doctor to include that test in the next batch of basic blood tests you’re given. And always ask your doctor before starting any kind of supplement. There may be contraindications from prescription meds you take.]
@SarahEOlson2009 Treatment Integration for Depression, Diabetes Increases Success for Both
[SEO: People with diabetes are at higher risk of becoming depressed, and people who are depressed have a higher risk of becoming diabetic. “In the end, 60.9 percent of subjects who received the integrated approach [of treating diabetes and depression as correlated, with a special program aimed at education and compliance] had improved blood sugar levels, compared to only 35.7 percent of patients who received only the usual primary care. Also, patients in the integrated care group were more likely to show fewer depression symptoms in comparison with patients in the usual care group (58.7 percent vs. 30.7 percent, respectively).”]
The Rest of the Best
@AshleyJudd More on why we must prevent child abuse: “You can modify behavior, but you can’t rewire disrupted brain circuits.”
[SEO: “‘Toxic stress’, or adversity, in early childhood can lead to a lifetime of mental and physical problems — including disruption of the body’s metabolism or brain development — and pediatricians should take a leading role in providing care that addresses the problem….” Includes several links to articles which discuss the research behind this conclusion.]
@NAMIMass Do you know the signs that you or someone you know are in an abusive relationship?
[SEO: “Noticing and acknowledging the warning signs and symptoms of domestic violence and abuse is the first step to ending it. No one should live in fear of the person they love.” A comprehensive resource, this post includes signs of being in an abusive relationship; the relationship of financial or economic abuse to emotional abuse; tactics used by abusers; the cycle of violence in domestic abuse; and what to do if you or someone you know is caught in this situation.]
@MentalHealthV Picking a therapist
[SEO: If you are looking for a therapist, it’s not as easy as picking a name out of the phone book. Be your own best advocate. It’s in your interests to make an informed choice. This article provides an excellent primer in how to ensure that you find the right therapist for you.]
@DCoEPage Yoga: an alternative therapy for wounded warriors with PTSD (via @WarriorCare)
[SEO: Yoga: also not just for veterans. Yoga has been used for years in trauma care, regardless of what caused it. “Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D., a PTSD author, clinician, researcher and teacher since the 1970s, asserts that therapists treating psychological trauma need to work with the body as well as the mind. He states that yoga may provide a safe and gentle means of becoming reacquainted with the body and allowing people to confront their internal sensations.”]
@Mindful_Living Mindfulness Over Mood: The Now Effect and Your Mental Health
[SEO: “Every moment of our lives our brains are rapidly taking in information and making snap judgments, interpretations and decisions based on what we see, hear, smell, touch, and taste. Depending on how we’re feeling we’ll interpret it differently.”
“Even though we believe our thoughts represent reality, the truth is, our thoughts are not facts. A lot of us live without an awareness of this, operating mostly from a state of auto-pilot, sleepwalking through life. The good news is we can train our minds to become more aware of this automaticity, get perspective and tune into what really matters.”]
@Vdkeck Mental Illness as a Disability (via @Natasha_tracy)
[SEO: A thoughtful analysis of why mental illness can be considered a disability, and why resistance to the label may be misplaced. “I don’t have anything against people with a disability. Why would I? Being disabled means nothing about the individual, it simply indicates their situation. It would be like being against people with siblings. It would just be silly.”
“Nevertheless, when considering my own bipolar disorder, I bristled against the word ‘disability.’ I know; this is hypocritical of me and a double standard. It’s OK for someone else to be disabled but not me? I’m embarrassed to even think it.”]
Goodnight Twitter!
Every Friday I collect favorite items from my tweet stream that amuse, awe, or enlighten me. So let’s get to it!
