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How Can I Help a Friend Who Seems Depressed?
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5 Reasons People Don’t Report Child Abuse
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Loving Someone With Depression
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Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse Resources
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Warning signs of child abuse and neglect
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The Other Victims Of Childhood Sexual Abuse | Together We Heal
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Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
I love good things theoretically, but with depression, I can’t enjoy the good things. Most people don’t get this. Most people can’t conceptualize of this. But even when good (recently great) life events occur, I just don’t feel pleasure (Depression Is Not Sadness). I can’t enjoy the good things when I’m depressed. This is truly…
While the article itself never mentions abuse survivors, I do find a lot of truth in it for us. We learned certain stories as children, that we have a hard time letting go of in adulthood, and they do limit us. Things like “I can’t trust anyone”, “I’m not worth loving”, etc. And then we…
Barbara Kay: Eight to 16% of the male population has been abused sexually in youth. Often by women tags: CA ChildAbuse Prevention begins with a willingness to talk tags: CA ChildAbuse There Is a Public Health Issue In the USA That Affects 130,000,000 People tags: CA ChildAbuse World Suicide Prevention Day, 2014 tags: CA Depression…
So many take for granted that they are able to get up each day, go to work, attend a dinner party, bowling league, or anything else that might be considered “no big deal”. For survivors, those things can be terrifying and just the thought of them is enough to make us want to stay home in…
While our attention has been focused on the big news taking place in the UK, down in Australia, political leaders are making calls to add priests, even in confessional, to the list of required reporters of child abuse. The Church, naturally, disagrees and considers this interference with religious practice, since the confessional has always been…