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Link – Suburban Family Shares Their Story on Sex Trafficking in Hopes of Warning Others
This particular story does not involve a child, it involves a 20-year old woman who was dealing with postpartum depression, but I think there are two important lessons to be learned from it, that do apply to children as well. 1. Victims of sexual abuse, and sex trafficking, come from all over, including well-to-do suburbs….
This Week’s Links (weekly)
Increasing awareness for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) tags: CA Boys in Custody and the Women Who Abuse Them tags: CA Study: Growing number of children sexually abused via webcams tags: CA Brave kids take stand against abuse | News.com.au tags: CA Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Review: Bruckheimer TV Double on Male Survivors
British Satellite Station Sky Television recently re-ran this old episode of Cold Case from its very first season. Cold Case comes across as all gloss and zero substance. Considering this is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, that’s perhaps an easy and unfair charge, but it’s not helped by episodes as lazily written as this one. It…
Link – This is how – and when – we need to talk about addiction
I would say the same thing about mental health, and child abuse survivors. It may not be easy to talk about, but until it is normal to do so, there will always be stigma around it. We talked and talked. Part of me silently whined and resented the conversation but a much bigger part of…
Childhood Trauma and Adult Mental Health Issues – It’s not That Simple
That’s the take-away from this more recent study. We cannot point to childhood trauma as the explanation for all mental health issues in adulthood. Sometimes, it is a contributing factor. Sometimes, it isn’t. Mental Health is much more complicated. There is no simple explanation for why it happens, and there’s no simple explanation for why it’s been getting worse. Beware those who want to paint all mental health issues with the same brush. Human beings are a bit more complicated than that.
