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Couple of New Blogs
I’ve recently added a couple of new links to the blogroll, and thought it would also help if I mentioned them here as well, so that you could go visit and welcome these new survivor-bloggers. First was Seething Consequence, a poetry blog, and then secondly was Living With Child Abuse, which is gathering up great…
Reading – An Open Letter to My Childhood Friends
“Whenever I bump into you in the high street, in the gym, the pub, uneasiness washes over me. I don’t know who to be: the school child me, with high grades but a rebellious streak; young adult me, flirting with socialism and madness; or “mature” me, literary, tired, and slightly jaded. The truth is, depression…
Link – The Delicate Balance of Disclosing Mental Illness on Social Media | The Daily Dot
Therein lies the great catch 22: The burden of keeping it all inside is cumbersome, but so is sharing the true extent of your illness to extended family members, people you hooked up with one and a half times, your sister’s husband’s brother’s daughter, even actual friends. Social media has made it easy to keep…
Sharing – Affordable treatment for mental illness and substance abuse gets harder to find
These two facts are hard to explain. “Spending for all types of substance abuse treatment was just 0.9 percent of total health-care spending in 2017. Mental health treatment accounted for 2.4 percent of total spending. In 2017, 70,237 Americans died of drug overdoses, and 47,173 from suicide, according to the Centers for Disease Control and…
Musicians And Survivors Start Foundation for Abuse Survivors
Spotted this through one of my news services. It picked up a blog post by Norman Lebracht: Two members of the 5 Browns, the classical piano quintet whose father was jailed for molesting his under-14 daughters, have launched a foundation for fellow survivors. It deserves everyone’s support. Please click here. You can also find the…
