At the same time as Gary Glitter’s arrest, Childline founder Esther Rantzen reported that she receieved further disclosures by email after the first Independent Television (ITV1) documentary was screened nearly a month ago, and passed them on to police. That story is here at the Daily Mail/Mail on Sunday site.
There are two further good message board-based support sites out there for male survivors of child sexual abuse. Since the first one launched itself only a week ago, we’ll wait for permission to come back to link up to them. The other one is MenThriving.org ,which was founded, built by and for adult male survivors…
You can learn more of the details from this article. Not only is Bell encouraging all Canadians to share their stories about mental health and help people understand just how many people around them every day are dealing with mental health issues, they are also contributing five cents for every Tweet using the #BellLetsTalk hashtag…
From the New Yorker website, you can read a lengthy, but well-researched, look at how pedophiles not only groom children, but groom the adults around those children. Much of the article focuses on the Penn State situation, but there are mentions of other pedophiles and how they managed to be believable and part of the…
“The study, published this month in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, included data on more than 11,000 people age 50 and older. Those who met with family and friends once every few months or less were nearly twice as likely to be depressed two years later than those who met up very often,…
“We think silence can’t indicate that something hurts. Without an expression of pain, we assume there’s no injury. The pain scale at the doctor’s office displays a smiling face over a zero to represent no pain, while the worst pain, a “10,” is represented by a face crumpled in agony and tears falling. Too often, our…
