Child Abuse Survivor Blog

  • Fighting Yourself?

    Saw this interesting article called Are you Fighting Yourself? today via a link on Lifehacker. I found it interesting on two levels personally. One, when I was in the midst of depression, I saw this in myself all the time. I seemed to almost take pride in my misery, and not do anything to get out…

  • Panic Attacks

    So I was talking to a friend recently who suffers from panic attacks. I had many questions about how she deals with them, what she does to try and avoid having them, etc. She said a couple of keys for her were trying to cut down stressors, getting exercise, even if it’s just walking with…

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    We get mail

    Actually I got an email from Andy, with a couple of links:   I thought I’d pass on these observations I’ve found for you to consider, ponder and maybe even comment on. The first is from Alice Miller, and comes from her website: http://www.alice-miller.com/flyers_en.php?page=3 (the 12 points) The second is from a search of wikipedia…

  • Back on the bandwagon

    After my surgery in November I wasn’t able to workout for a couple of weeks. That only served to prove the one thing that people always say about exercise, once you stop working out regularly, it’s incredibly hard to get start up again. It really is. Between a case of the flu and holidays it…

  • On-line predators

    I found this post about the statistics of on-line predators compared to the level of panic about on-line predators quite interesting. I’ve been aware for a number of years that focused media attention on any issue can greatly impact how people act, regardless of what the actual risk might be. How many people won’t travel…

  • Ways to Reduce Stress

    One of the causes of depression can be a either an unhealthy amount of, or an inability to cope with, stress. So, naturally when I spotted a post on LifeHacker about reducing stress, I had to click over through to the full article on 52 ways to reduce stress. There are some very good ideas…