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Carrie has a message for child abuse survivors in Australia. tags: CA ChildAbuse New Apps Give Teens Easier, Persistent Access To Mental Help tags: CA Depression Facebook will alert you when kids go missing in your area tags: CA MM SocNetPres She was charged with sex crime; Cretin-Derham 16-year-old got the blame tags: CA ChildAbuse…
Social Media Rape Anonymity Breach Group in Court
A month ago five more people were charged with using Facebook and Twitter in April 2012 to name a Welsh woman who was raped by a football player. That group trial began at Prestatyn Magistrates’ Court today and we’ll bring you the outcome of the case when it concludes. The Belfast Telegraph has the updated story…
Reading – Why does it take victims of child sex abuse so long to speak up?
“Multiple stressors in the child’s family and community context, and social and cultural attitudes that shame and blame victims, can create environments in which disclosure is fraught with difficulty. The process of disclosure often involves behavioural and indirect cues, and accidental disclosures, as much or more often than a conscious decision to tell someone about…
Link – It’s Not Just Chris Cornell: Suicide Rates Highest Among Middle-Aged Men
“The news that 52-year-old Seattle grunge rock icon Chris Cornell had killed himself after a concert in Detroit shocked and saddened fans of the Soundgarden frontman. But perhaps even more shocking is the fact that Cornell was one of scores of middle-aged American men who took their own lives on Wednesday: 121 Americans die by…
Link – Childhood Trauma: Overcoming the Hurt of Invalidation
“Invalidation is triggering. It makes a white hot anger rise up inside. We want to defend ourselves the way we couldn’t when we were young. At the same time, we lean towards self-doubt because we’d all rather believe the abuse didn’t happen at all. Invalidation makes healing slow down and we feel like we don’t…
