Similar Posts
Link – Stop Changing the Subject When Your Friend Brings Up Mental Illness
“When we bring up mental illness and something in your eyes and body language changes, it hurts. When you are suddenly like, “Have you seen the new season of Orange Is The New Black?” it makes is feel like our struggle is something we should hide and be ashamed of. It makes us feel like…
Sharing – Sexual abuse: Why young males are often invisible victims
I grew up in a world where having my friends and other parents think I was gay seemed worse than just continuing to be abused. Think about that for a minute. Think about what we tell boys about being a man and how society reacts to men who share that they were sexually abused as a child? Is there anything about it that screams “Tell your story. We support you!”.
There are some small pockets of that online and in certain circles, but it’s going to also come with a lot of questions about why you didn’t fight, how you’re destined to now be an abuser, that you enjoyed it, etc.
Female victims of almost all ages will get asked about what they were wearing, how much they drank, etc. That’s wrong.
Male victims will get our own set of questions, mostly about why we didn’t fight, why we were so weak, are we gay? That’s equally as wrong.
Link – Depression Sucks, You Don’t
Love the headline. Pithy as it is, it holds a very large truth about depression, and how it lies to us. “So what can you, the individual with depression, do? You need to ask for help. Waiting around for your depression to lift is miserable, and is a symptom of faulty thinking that you need…
Sharing – Disrupting Psychotherapy: it’s time to reimagine how we provide mental health services
I hope those who work in the field are thinking the way Aaron is: “Rather than seeing this as a stop-gap until psychotherapy can return to the status quo, therapists should instead see it as an opportunity to rethink the delivery of psychological services all together.” Most of what we consider “therapy” has been around…
RT @SurvivorNetwork: This Week’s Links (weekly): Pleasant Valley grad helps put her sexually abusive father… …
RT @SurvivorNetwork: This Week’s Links (weekly): Pleasant Valley grad helps put her sexually abusive father… …
Walter Frazier liked this on Facebook.