This Week’s Links (weekly)
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Self-Care Practices and Recovering From Mental Illness (pt. 2)
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Getting the Support You Need When You’re Struggling with Depression
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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I completely agree with what Amy has to say in this article. In fact I would say the same thing to child abuse survivors who are viewed as being “weak”. You’ve survived something that many people couldn’t survive. How does that make you anything but strong? “There’s a pervasive belief that mental illness stems from…
Thoughts After Watching “Shiny Happy People” – The Duggars Documentary
As shocking and dark as the details of the Duggar family and their relgious beliefs may be to many of us, it shouldn’t surprise us at all that they were so many people with a vested interest in the show, the religious organization, and the family were encouraged and even forced to gloss over the reality of what happened. If you’re shocked that anyone would go to such lengths to hide child abuse and ignore victims, you simply haven’t been paying attention. It goes on everywhere, and I hope the more cases like this one that we can bring to light, the more we’ll start to understand how horrible this is.
Thank you for the link to my blog article where I do a book review of Lynn Tolson’s book Beyond the Tears.