How to Help Someone with a Mental Illness
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Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse: December edition
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Is Mental Illness the Problem?
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Helping Child Sexual Abuse Survivors: Portland Attorney Peter Janci Describes Grooming
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R.A. Dickey uses baseball as powerful platform to fight sexual abuse
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New child abuse laws put school staff in a bind
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Given what I’ve heard about how long it can take to get help through the NHS, I guess we should be glad so many young people are trying to do something. Soaring numbers of under-18s are turning to apps, online counselling and “mood diaries” to help them manage and recover from conditions that have left…
I posted this to my tech blog the other day and wanted to make sure that survivors were aware of it as well. If you are trying to escape from an abusive situation, be it domestic violence and otherwise, don’t trust any technology that the person you are trying to escape from had access to….
Yesterday seven men were jailed for operating a paedophile ring abusing girls, some of whom had attempted to report to police or social services but were turned away. The BBC has the general report here . The Guardian followed up with its own take here plus one of their Comment Is Free columns has been…
What I appreciate most is that in putting this together, they recognize the importance of support and connection from the people in our lives every day instead of just telling people to go to therapy and not worry about the strength of their relationships. We’ve spent far too long avoiding talking directly about mental health because even saying you have a therapist is considered taboo.
“When our definition of manhood is wrapped so tightly with what we can accomplish, do, and conquer anything that keeps us from achieving these things is emasculating. When we tie our worth into this cultural definition of manhood, any failure to meet the marks of manhood result in a devaluation of the view of ourselves….
The BBC has obtained recorded transcripts of police interviews with paedophile nursery worker Vanessa George for its Regional Current Affairs Magazine Inside Out (South West England Region). Also on the BBC, the Storyville documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired has been repeated following news of the denial of bail to the film director. For British…
