Jamaica Gleaner Therapeutic Services Article
The Jamaica Gleaner posted a short piece about therapy in adulthood following CSA. It can be read here.
– CBG
Survivor Island is another resource aimed at male survivors of child abuse with a members-only section to the wider forum. However the initial concentration started with teenagers though the site is open to all ages. Further resources are planned in future. The link is as follows; http://forum.survivorisland.org/index.php Meanwhile, back in the UK, AMSOSA, formerly Survivors…
Two people that posted images online which were claimed to be Robert Thompson and John Venables, the 1993 murderers of two year old James Bulger, as adults, received suspended sentences in the other big story from last week. Our views on revenge of any kind following child abuse are well known and it’s a bigger…
I know for me, stress management was both a big part of what I learned and worked on during therapy, and continues to be an important part of self-care. This is something worth considering: “In today’s society, the habitual way of dealing with stress is to fight, escape, avoid, or reluctantly put up with it,…
This is a hard truth for many survivors, but a truth nonetheless. “Talk therapy” is hard work, for person in therapy and therapist alike, but it remains the most evidence-based and effective treatment in the long term for mental health conditions, from anxiety to trauma and back again. I cannot stress enough, that healing is…