Sky News reported on the evening of Sunday 28th October that a relative of Jimmy Savile has disclosed and claimed some family members might have known but also turned a blind eye due to the presenter and DJ’s fame. That story is here.
I think this is interesting. Of course, access to a park or walkable neighborhoods would lead to better mental health outcomes. At least that is what we’d expect. But for some young people, when that park or neighborhood isn’t safe, it might turn into yet another place to be hyperalert and anxious about.Â
We have to address societal issues that cause harm. Politicians who don’t address both the lack of mental health resources and the various political issues that actively harm the mental health of all of us don’t deserve our vote. If you consider yourself a mental health advocate, consider how your representatives have voted and where they stand on these issues. Have they cut mental health funding, opposed mental health support in schools, or supported laws that cause active mental harm to some segments of the population?
Consider that before you go to the voting booth this year.
“1. In 2007, 1 in 2 children in India, both boys and girls, were victims of sexual abuse. 2. Almost 35% of all children in Africa are sexually abused or raped. 3. A child is raped about every three minutes in South Africa. 4. In the United States, a child is raped about every two…
How often, as children, did we decide to “fly under the radar” and not draw attention to something that brought us happiness because that just created a target? How many of us, as adults, still live with the fear that identifying something that makes us happy only invites someone to hurt us by taking it away? Even when there is no one there to take it, we live with that fear and don’t get too attached to anything.
My hope for all of us is to find a safe place to overcome that and enjoy the things that make us happy.
Two teacher stories appeared in two countries this week, one in Montana where the male teacher got a month for sleeping with a 14 year old student, and another in Scotland where the female teacher was put on the register and cautioned under Scottish law for sleeping with a 16 year old. Those stories are…
Yesterday, the 1990s killer of 7-year-old Sean Williams was murdered in prison whilst serving his life sentence. The BBC has the story here with other updates in the story crawl at the bottom of the page speculating about the identity of the killer and his previous attack on another infamous English sex offender that murdered…
