Links (weekly)
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Male Childhood Sexual Abuse: Suffering in Silence
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Understanding Depression Led to Facing Sexual Abuse
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How To Talk To Your Child About Sexual Abuse
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Project Unbreakable Gives Sexual Abuse Victims a Voice in Pictures
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Family Support Line Launches New Website
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Mental Illness is a Lonely Disease
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Psychological trauma can scar health for years
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Phases of Healing tags: CA When to Share What tags: CA Do Your Fears Hold You Back? 3 Simple Strategies to Ease Fear tags: CA Vivian Norris: Breaking the Silence: The Media and Male Sexual Abuse tags: CA Sugar Ray Leonard: I was child sex abuse victim tags: CA Who’s Watching Your Children? Advice For…
“Even though Barbra didn’t share details of her illness with me, I always vaguely intuited something was going on. But I avoided directly engaging with her about her struggles because it was just easier to ignore something I didn’t understand. I wanted to maintain the status quo of our light-hearted friendship.” You may not always…
I really enjoyed Gretchen’s metaphor. Healing is oftentimes not a simple, clear path. Sometime, things get foggy. “Fog is the reminder to pay attention to the stretch of trail that you are on. To each footfall in front of you. What most people imagine about healing from trauma or from grieving is that you have…
This is true in Vegas, and everywhere else. Kids with uninvolved parents make for easy prey for pedophiles, pimps, etc. Kids we write off as “trouble” may just be user the influence of traffickers. But how do you spot a child sex trafficking victim? Carter says you just have to look around you. “Thirteen or…
This isn’t really surprising is it? An issue like depression zaps our ability to do much of anything, let alone eat healthy, exercise and take care of yourself. This is just another way it is a deadly serious disease. Australians with serious mental illness are living on average for 10-32 years less than the rest…