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Sharing – 5 Crucial Mental Health Tips for Bloggers
Whenever anyone asks me about blogging, especially about child abuse and mental health, I tell them that they need to decide two things, and always stick to them.
1. Decide what you will share about your own story, and what is off the table. Don’t share so much of yourself that you wind up becoming overwhelmed and find yourself dealing with the fallout. Remember, once you share it, you no longer control how other people respond. If you’re not ready for that, there’s no shame in it. Just know before you start.
2. The second one, is to decide what you’re willing and able, to give to your readers. This is the hardest one, as the article below mentions:
Reading – 5 Things I Wish You Knew About My Child Who Has Mental Illness
We talk about stigma for folks dealing with mental illness, but probably no one get stigmatized more than children with mental illnesses. This a great story about how bad it can be for those kids, but also how, with the correct, treatment, these same kids can go on and lead great lives. 5 Things I…
Parents Criticised over son’s CSA “Buy-Off” by perp
As survivors, the reaction of parents when the child discloses can vary. This is the first case we have seen where the parents have demanded money from a confirmed offender with only a condition of leaving the area rather than a formal report to police. The money was then used as a deposit on a…
Link – Why Rob Whalen walked away from baseball
Can we definitively say what happened to Rob Whalen shows a lack of caring in major league baseball about mental health, or a failure of the Mariners? No. I’m not ready to say that.There’s too much we don’t know from this story. What I will say, however, is that his description of what happened in…
Historical Abuse Investigation Leads to Expat Extradition from Oz back to UK
One story about a follow-up interview of a public figure relating to child abuse disappeared from the Daily Mail’s website over the weekend. If the story moves on and can be reported we’ll bring you that one at a later date. In a separate story last weekend a man who emigrated to Australia was extradited…
