This Week’s Links (weekly)

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Sharing – Stigma Keeps Us From Talking – Even To Each Other

Sharing – Stigma Keeps Us From Talking – Even To Each Other

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I agree with what George says here about speaking out – Sometimes, when the others we’re concerned about include employers, spouses and children, it’s OK to exercise your right to just be quiet. At the end of the day, while we wish dealing with a mental health issue would be met with only love and…

Link – ‘I Survived a Suicide Attempt’

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BuzzFeed recently interviewed four suicide attempt survivors in a moving video. Each spoke about the challenges they faced that led them to attempt to take their own lives, and then about the ways they’ve learned to cope since then. “It gets better,” one of the interviewees, whose name isn’t shared, says in the video below….

Link – Issue of children who sexually abuse other children cannot be ignored

Link – Issue of children who sexually abuse other children cannot be ignored

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The numbers are staggering. “Official figures indicate that between a fifth and a third of all cases of child sexual abuse in the UK involve “perpertrators” under the age of 18 – but the figures could in fact be much higher. In a random UK general population survey of more than 6,000 people, a staggering…

Link – We Are Survivors –

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“On the last day, the state-appointed therapist said to me, “You’re a survivor. You didn’t fail; an adult failed you.” “ Being a child abuse survivor isn’t something we should be ashamed of, being strong enough to survive what happened is a sign of strength, not weakness. We Are Survivors –

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