This Week’s Links (weekly)
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Open secret or Open wound?: A 360 degree view on Bacha Bazi | Indiegogo
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Silent Tears: Guiding child abuse victims down a healing path
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Open secret or Open wound?: A 360 degree view on Bacha Bazi | Indiegogo
tags: CA
Blues or Depression? Knowing When to Seek Treatment
tags: CA
How to Talk with Your Children about Sexual Abuse
tags: CA
Seven Mistakes People Often Make When They Get Depressed
tags: CA
Silent Tears: Guiding child abuse victims down a healing path
tags: CA
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
“According to some headlines on the Autism Speaks site, much of New York will light up in blue during the month in support. Red Bull Arena, Macy’s and Bloomingdales, and even the NYC sanitation trucks will aid in bringing awareness to this issue. In a show of solidarity, the Great Buddha of Hyogo in Kobe,…
Are any of these preventing you from seeking help? Especially the idea that mental illness is forever? Many are not. Depression is not a permanent state for most people who have it. I’ve had it. I had to be medicated, and be in therapy, for a number of years because of it. I no longer…
This isn’t new information for regular readers around here, what April says in the article below is a problem that just keeps getting worse. “April Foreman, an executive committee member of the board of directors at the American Association of Suicidology and a suicide prevention coordinator at the VA Health System in Baton Rouge, La.,…
“You know how all the depression blogs and ads recommend ‘talking to someone’ and ‘reaching out’. Well, that’s the first thing I did. Admittedly, it took me a long time to get there. For months I suffered in silence thinking I was simply upset with life and not actually going through depression. But the more…
“The most maddening—and the most common—response I get when I write about the daughters and sons of unloving mothers is that people point out that the ones I write about were “only” (quotations marks mine, and meant ironically) verbally abused. Science knows better, but the culture does not; the mantra seems to be that if…
When Meg was 12, her mother, Annie, found herself unable to look at her. Seeing her daughter made Annie feel unsettled, at times almost angry. At first, she couldn’t figure out why. “And then, Meg turned 13 and suddenly, everything slid into place for me,” Annie says. “I found myself thinking, ‘She’s so tiny. She…