American viewers have the advantage tomorrow when the second male survivor show airs; overseas we’ll have to stream it as of the weekend or late Friday night depending on the time difference. The webmaster of Toysoldiers.com has already given his reaction to the first show which you can read here.
– CBG
Even though some companies might have gotten this all wrong, we still have the same issues we’ve had with mental health services that we’ve had for years. It’s too difficult for too many people to access. Technology can help eliminate some hurdles preventing people from getting help. That is worth doing when it’s done right. Those services can and should go away when it’s not done right. The fact that many are indicates that chasing money is not the way.
That shouldn’t ever be the way. It doesn’t mean online therapy itself is a bad idea, though. We must be careful to get it right.
Following the conviction of Vanessa George, another female paedophile has confessed to 100 attacks on a number of children of both sexes. That report is here, and the paper has been careful not to dump the blame on any man she was in contact with as some kind of controller. In a different case a…
We have to address societal issues that cause harm. Politicians who don’t address both the lack of mental health resources and the various political issues that actively harm the mental health of all of us don’t deserve our vote. If you consider yourself a mental health advocate, consider how your representatives have voted and where they stand on these issues. Have they cut mental health funding, opposed mental health support in schools, or supported laws that cause active mental harm to some segments of the population?
Consider that before you go to the voting booth this year.
The experiment was a simple one. Take two small girls and put them, apparently, by themselves in a large shopping area, looking lost and confused, and see who stops to help them. The results left the experimenters stunned, but I don’t know why they would be. We have absolutely reached a point where showing interest…
I actually wrote a post about this last week, a response to an editorial about this very case, in which the author indicated that yes, James had a legal right to tell his story, but probably shouldn’t to spare the world from having to hear about child abuse, or something. Now, however, James has written…
