Manchester Music School Report Follows Teacher Conviction
Towards the end of last week an inspector’s report into the English music school where a teacher was convicting of abusing a former pupil was released. The BBC story is here.
Dodge County Attorney Oliver Glass says he’ll prosecute the sexual assault case like any other case. “You hear the jokes, ‘oh good for him’ and that kind of stuff, but no, the trauma for either sex can be real and therapy may be needed,” said Glass. “It’s the first case I can recall that I’ve…
The video testimony of a 21 year old in Texas who was raped aged 8, tied to a tree and set on fire, named his alleged attacker, a convicted paedophile following an attack on a second child. Following years of skin graft operations the victim subseqently died from cancer last year. Texan authorities substituted the original charge to felony murder in a…
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I wanted to share this review from the PsychCentral website for a couple of reasons. First, the idea struck me as fairly interesting because I do believe we all need to be able to pause and have some fun as a part of our healing, as described: In Play and Creativity in Psychotherapy, Terry Marks-Tarlow,…
“Fewer men than women are formally diagnosed with depression, and in Western countries, rates of male depression are half that of females. Experts suggest that the lower reported rates of men’s depression are due, in part, to men’s reluctance to express concerns about their mental health and reticence to seek professional mental health care services…
This might just mean that the majority of the people around us right now are likely dealing with some sort of mental health struggle. This would also mean that there is nothing wrong with us, that we are the normal ones. That there is no weakness in us, or something lacking in us, but rather that we are having a normal reaction to a world that is causing anxiety and depression.
The fix is out there, not inside of us. We can only do what we can to cope, take care of ourselves, and find the tools that allow us to continue, but the real solution is much larger than that. The real solution will require much more. The real solution to mental health issues is fixing society and the world we live in.
If you want solutions, that’s where you start. How do we build a world where being anxious and depressed isn’t an understandable and normal reaction?
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