Paedophile re-arrested in Savile Case
Ex pop star and convicted paedophile Gary Glitter was re-arrested over the weekend by detectives investigating child abuse carried out by Jimmy Savile and others. The BBC has the story here.
– CBG
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We have to have serious discussions about mental health resources, for adults and kids. This isn’t even about stigma or awareness, this is a system with fundamental flaws, that creates this lack of available, and affordable, resources. This is a society that is unable, and unwilling, to provide basic care for too many of its own members. Is that the society we want to live in? I hope not, but as long as we continue down a path where the best plan we can come up for a teenager struggling with suicidal thoughts is 17 days on a gurney, and sedated, inside of an ER, we are not that society.
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There is More Than One Way to Stigmatize Mental Health Issues
That’s a whole lot of people in this survey who are not OK with those of us who have struggled with mental health being their friend, a family member, around their kids, in a job or renting a place to live.
That’s some severe stigma.
