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Sharing – America’s ‘Extremely Punitive’ Prisons Make Mental Illness Worse
This opinion piece from Katherine Kornberg covers ground that might seem familiar to long-time readers, but if you’re new around here, this is the reality of where our mental health system is. Completely under-funded, under-resourced, and as a result? This: “Without the proper community-based mental health solutions, prisons and jails have become a “dumping ground”…
Link – How to Hold on to Healing in Times of Stress
We’ve all seen this, and we’ve asked the same questions: Life throws you a curveball in the form of a breakup, an illness, or a change in your work situation. Suddenly, the behaviors, thoughts, and feelings you thought you had left behind come rushing back. You begin to doubt your self-improvement. Was your healing just…
Link – The Truth About Quiet Verbal Abuse
Not all child abuse is physical, and not all verbal abuse involves being yelled at. The child subjected to quiet abuse often experiences more emotional confusion than one who’s being yelled at or insulted, precisely because the absence of rage sends mixed signals and the motivation behind willful silence or a refusal to answer is…
Sharing – Child sex abuse survivors are five times more likely to be the victims of sexual assault later in life
The results of this study were pretty bleak, but they’re also complicated. “Unfortunately, though, child sexual abuse survivors were much more likely than those in the control group to be re-victimised in what are considered medium and high harm personal injury crimes. For instance, they were five times more likely to have been victims of…
