This Week’s Links (weekly)
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On Marrying a Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse – Shonna Milliken Humphrey – The Atlantic
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How to Find Someone to Talk to When You Can’t Afford Therapy
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Study shows men just as likely to be depressed as women
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On Marrying a Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse – Shonna Milliken Humphrey – The Atlantic
tags: CA
How to Find Someone to Talk to When You Can’t Afford Therapy
tags: CA
5 Ways to Help a Depressed Friend
tags: CA
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
This is the reality. Yes, raising awareness is a good thing. Letting people know they are not alone and eliminating stigma are great things. But…. Having mental health awareness means more people will be able to recognize signs of mental illness, seek care for themselves, and support others. So here comes the bad news….
Kurtis Gabriel, his fight with mental health, and why talking about it matters
Marginalized Mental Health Matters: What Experts Want You to Know
Understaffed State Psychiatric Facilities Leave Mental Health Patients in Limbo
How stigma prevents people from accessing mental health care and what can be done about it
Suicide Prevention Is a Million Caring Acts Far Before Crisis Intervention
Hey look, here’s a another male victim of childhood sexual abuse, someone many of us are familiar with, who is in the public eye, and who’s father was also sexually abused. Tell me again how sexual abuse doesn’t happen in your circle, only to other people. If you think that, you’re wrong. It happens everywhere,…
Chris Langham is a British actor who downloaded child abuse images six years ago, and was convicted and served time for for this crime after being cleared of other allegations. He’s back in a new film and this subject was discussed on daytime TV show The Wright Stuff as to whether the film would suffer…
Using Art in Psychotherapy tags: CA ChildAbuse Understanding trauma can turn lives around: former NHLer Sheldon Kennedy tags: CA ChildAbuse Top 10 PTSD Blogs of 2014 tags: CA Depression The Aftereffects of Childhood Sexual Abuse tags: CA ChildAbuse Talking about mental illness isn’t enough tags: CA Depression TSN: Mike Babcock speaks out about reducing stigmas…
The crisis lines were created as a place to talk about anxiety and depression, but they found a lot of kids reaching out because they were being abused. They expected it to be the other way around, depressed kids who might turn out to be abused later in the conversation, not the first thing, but…