Rising cases of abuse, neglect: The good, the bad, the ugly
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Solitary Confinement: Mental Illness and Isolation
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Blog Against Child Abuse – March 2013 Edition
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Depression
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Are More Female Teachers Having Inappropriate Relationships With Teen Students?
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Author Jayneen Sanders offers tips on how to keep your children safe from sexual predators
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Helping Survivors Of Abuse Want To Change
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Consider how often a child is not believed because the family friend or member “doesn’t seem like the type?”
That’s familial grooming. That is getting the family to see you as one thing when you are targeting a child in that family, thereby not only giving you access to the child but creating doubt about whether their own child is telling the truth. It also doesn’t help that so many of us think we know what a predator looks like, and are so easily fooled:
I wanted to share this article because I think Megan makes a good point. We often tell those suffering with mental health issues to “get help”, without also acknowledging how hard that really is. We compare it to a physical illness where, of course,people would ask for help, like asking family to assist us during…
Over the years of having this website, I’ve had many people suggest that my abusive childhood made me more compassionate and a kinder human being. Or, maybe it gave me a better sense of humor or made me more spiritual.
Or maybe it didn’t. No version of me wasn’t abused. If there had been a version of me that wasn’t abused, he could be more compassionate. He could be a complete narcissist. He could be funnier or kinder. He could be a selfish ass.
No one knows. That version of me is Schrodinger’s cat. It’s all the possibilities because the box can never be opened to see what’s inside.
I’m not in Australia, obviously, but if you are, the Survivors and Mates Support Network is having a launch fundraiser on July 4th. From their site: Survivors & Mates Support Network (SAMSN) is a not-for-profit organisation working to increase public awareness of the effects that childhood sexual abuse can have on men in their adult…
Finding Hope Through Depression tags: CA Depression How The Effects Of Trauma Can Be Passed Down From One Generation To The Next tags: CA ChildAbuse How To Recover From Abus tags: CA ChildAbuse From Tracie: Writing About Surviving On My Blog In 2014 tags: CA ChildAbuse Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links…
There are more details to describe what some men meant by no one, but no one was a very popular response. I’m not surprised by that. I think most men don’t open up 100% to anyone. Part of it is not having that kind of relationship with anyone, part of it is society’s expectations of men to be strong and stoic, part of it is women’s expectations that the men in their lives remain strong and stoic, and part of it is just our unwillingness to have uncomfortable conversations.
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