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Shared Links (weekly) June 13, 2021
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Friends mourn Steve Austin, former pastor and author who wrote about suicide and mental health
– I didn’t know Steve the way others did. I followed him on social media, read and shared some of his stuff, and will miss having that voice out here.
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Want to save the children? How child sexual abuse and human trafficking really work
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“The Me You Can’t See”: How To Stop Hiding Behind Your Hurt and Start Sharing Your Story
Links I’m Sharing (weekly)
Exploring the Value of Peer Support for Mental Health 3 Lessons that Gloria Vanderbilt Taught Us About Coping with a Child’s Suicide Into the Lighthouse: the UK’s first safe space for child sexual abuse victims Florida To Require Mental Health Classes For Public School Students 14 Mental Health Related Blogs You Need to Read •…
Sharing – Red Flags of child sex abusers from an ex-child abuse detective
We’ve spent so much time looking at lists like this one, looking for the bad people, and that is absolutely part of abuse prevention. Still, we’ve missed the boat on what might be the most significant tool in our prevention toolkit, taking the target off kids by connecting with them as parents and with other trusted adults—helping them be less vulnerable.
Kids who don’t have secrets make terrible targets for abusers. Kids with support and secure relationships aren’t easily manipulated and aren’t too eager to please adults.
We need our kids to be more of that, starting with having close relationships with the safe adults in their lives.
Link – You Can’t Plan for Mental Illness
This sounds a lot like many people I’ve come across: “After my last hospitalization, I immediately re-enrolled in classes. I didn’t give myself the chance to heal because I wanted so badly to get back on track with my 5-year plan.” Having goals is great. Working hard to make them happen, is great. Ignoring your…
Sharing – I’m Open About My Depression—But Not Completely
As I have written before, being an advocate online for me means writing, sharing information and insights, interacting with other survivors, etc. but sometimes I just can’t. Not because I’ve lost interest or don’t want to do it, but because I’m just tired of the pushback. I’m tired of having stories about male victims challenged or dismissed, tired of people in the mental health space telling me that everyone should just do what worked for them, tired of dealing with other people’s definitions of what healing looks like, or how long it should take, and on and on.
It’s all stigma, it’s all the stigma that I want to fight against, but some days it’s just exhausting. So I’d rather not talk about it.
Sharing – the wound of unbelonging
Mental health advocates like me can talk all day about the importance of community and the life-saving value of human connection, but who are we if we take that away from anyone?
