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Link – Study Suggests Childhood Trauma Be Viewed as a Public Health Issue
Should the prevention of childhood trauma be a public health issue? Not all trauma can be prevented, but when you see statistics like this, it’s hard to argue that this isn’t something that is affecting society in a large way: “Not only were rates of developing a mental illness higher, people who experienced more trauma…
Links I’m Sharing (weekly)
Five Enlightened Ways to Think About Mental Health The New Look of Survivor Day Powerful display shows pair of shoes for every child lost to suicide Opinion: We Need to Be Trained in Responding to Mental Illness Understanding the Loneliness Epidemic Not Crazy: How I Overcame My Double Standard About Taking Psychiatric Medication True progress…
Adoptive Parents Jailed for Daughters’ CSA “Buy Off” by Perps
In a more recent English court case, two adoptive parents from Manchester who allowed the abuse of their daughters by paedophiles in return for money and a car were jailed following their conviction over the summer. The adoptive father also took part in the abuse of one of the girls and so received the longer…
Reviews Elsewhere – Show Me All Your Scars: True Stories of Living with Mental Illness
Spotted another book review over on PsychCentral that I thought you might be interested in: What comes to mind when you think of the term mental illness? Do you think of individuals who are thriving, successful, independent, and happy? Or do you picture individuals who are locked away from society because of dangerous hallucinations and…
Link – How mental health alters decision making
“Young kids make decisions based on a set of rules they construct about the world around them – don’t draw on the walls, don’t spit your food, do eat your vegetables. As teenagers, we stop making decisions based on constructed rules and start independently weighing the risks and rewards of different options, but with a…
