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Midlands CSA Kidnapper and Offender Gets Minimum 7 Years, Abducted Another Child Previously
The paedophile that kidnapped and abused a 10 year old boy last year in the Midlands was jailed for a minimum of seven years with an indeterminate sentence on Monday 5th November. Considering that kidnapping itself may have attracted a much stronger sentence and the offender kidnapped a different child before this case, the sentence…
Reviews Elsewhere – Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me
Found this review from Louise Bradley on the Mental Health Commission of Canada website and thought the book by Anna Mehler Paperny might be of interest to readers here as well. In her words: Paperny is a journalist. She also lives with treatment resistant depression. Her book could be summed up in three words: know…
Depression From a Spouse’s Point of View
Anne Wheaton, yes Wil’s wife, has written an insightful piece about dealing with a loved one’s depression. What I like about it is the honesty she shows in talking about what chemical depression can look like to a spouse. It doesn’t often look like depression, it looks like anger and frustration, etc. Depression symptoms are…
Community Health Care Resources That Don’t Exist
As societies, we don’t care enough to do the hard work required to change it. If we cared, we wouldn’t have years and years of stories like this. We wouldn’t have millions of people having to choose between eating and their mental health or being dumped into a system that offers no help.Â
But we do, and very few leaders are even talking about making the massive investments necessary to overhaul the system.Â
Because we don’t care.Â
Thinking about Therapy for your Child?
From my perspective as an abuse survivor, if you think there’s even a chance your child has been abused, bullied, or is simply dealing with mental health challenges that need help, get the help early if you can. It only gets worse the longer you wait. Read the examples, and if any of them sound like your kid, do something.
Link – Chicago-area Advocate program helps children recover from sexual abuse
“For months, Erin Hagerty tried to get the young boy to open up about his traumatic past. Instead, he spent entire sessions avoiding eye contact, staring at the wall and refusing to speak. But Hagerty, a clinical psychologist with the Advocate Childhood Trauma Treatment Program didn’t give up on the child, who had been abandoned…
