Mental health experts say identifying when someone is in need of help is the first step — and approaching them with careful compassion is the hardest, most essential part that follows.
It’s buried deep in the article, but they seem to recommend:
the LEAP method. Developed by Xavier Amador, it stands for Listen Empathize Agree Partner, and is meant to help better communicate with people who don’t realize they’re mentally ill or are refusing treatment.
Old term from the dawn of time. Slashdot is quite possibly the largest tech forum in history. It was fairly common for small sites to get mentioned or promoted on slashdot, only for the overwhelming traffic to crash whatever it was that was being discussed. A mass surge in traffic that causes a website to fail became known as being Slashdotted.
It’s buried deep in the article, but they seem to recommend:
They link to https://namiga.org/resources/about-mental-illness/leap-assist-someone-accept-help/ which unhelpfully tells me my IP is blocked by CloudFlare because accessing that link is considered an “attack”
Probably because they got slashdotted
Try the Archive.org mirror
What does slash dotted mean?
Old term from the dawn of time. Slashdot is quite possibly the largest tech forum in history. It was fairly common for small sites to get mentioned or promoted on slashdot, only for the overwhelming traffic to crash whatever it was that was being discussed. A mass surge in traffic that causes a website to fail became known as being Slashdotted.
Super useful! It’s also how to deprogram cultists and a likely approach to MAGA/AfD brained people.
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