This Week’s Links (weekly)
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Sex-trafficking sting highlights vulnerability of foster children
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Physical and Emotional Abuse Usually Travel Together – HealthyPlace
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Don’t excuse female predators of children
tags: CA
Sex-trafficking sting highlights vulnerability of foster children
tags: CA
Physical and Emotional Abuse Usually Travel Together – HealthyPlace
tags: CA
tags: CA
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
It might be impossible to get to zero, but the UK needs to do something, the current numbers are staggering. Figures from the Samaritans show 6,188 suicides were recorded in the UK in 2015, an average of 17 per day. It’s not just the UK either, these numbers are similar in the US, Australia, Europe…
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is a downbeat but straightforward British gangster revenge movie with none of the America-friendly cheeky-Cockney-chappie charm of any of Guy Ritchie’s films. Since it’s from the director of Get Carter, what appears straightforward soon becomes multilayered and complicated. Mike Hodges reunites to direct Clive Owen, who broke through in Hodges’…
“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…
“An international team of researchers lead by the University of Granada has scientifically proven, for the first time, that depression is associated with important alterations of the oxidative stress, so it should be considered a systemic disease.” This is important if it is verified with further study. No one goes around telling people with systemic…
I know sexual abuse survivors don’t tend to be “huggers”, but we would do well to find safe people to hug when we’re having a bad day. Here’s even more research to back that up: “Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University say people who consider themselves huggers actually have better overall health and stronger relationships. Previous…
Social anxiety is a major mental health challenge impacting millions, yet the disorder has proven to be a significant challenge for the mental health community. The primary reason is that social anxiety is driven by the underlying emotions of shame, embarrassment, and humiliation. Most sufferers do not seek help because of these emotions, making social…
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