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Link – My Best Friend Committed Suicide
“Even though Barbra didn’t share details of her illness with me, I always vaguely intuited something was going on. But I avoided directly engaging with her about her struggles because it was just easier to ignore something I didn’t understand. I wanted to maintain the status quo of our light-hearted friendship.” You may not always…
Links (weekly)
Healing – How Long Does It Take tags: CA What We Wish Our Parents Understood About Our Sexual Abuse tags: CA 1in6 Thursday: Begin By Believing Believe that the sexual abuse of boys is occurring in your community despite few reported incidents. tags: CA Dear Survivor – A Letter of Encouragement to Survivors of Abuse…
Link – I Was A Victim Of Child Abuse And I’m Not Okay
Whenever a group of people gets together and starts talking about their childhood years, I end up sitting there silently, listening to stories of loving families and wishing that I could relate. I rarely share my own stories, because honestly, there are few that are full of happiness—and who wants to ruin the fun with…
Link – Mental health difficulties start young – so why don’t we give primary schools more help?
This is a good question in the UK, as this story lays out. It’s also a good question for everywhere else as well. I know in the US we are lacking when it comes to providing much in the way of mental health resources for kids, as well as adults. But it’s particularly problematic because…
Link – Talking to Men About Depression
This is something that we often miss, and prevents us from seeing depression in many people to begin with: “Part of the difficulty was that my friend’s symptoms were more about impatience, irritability, and anger than behaviors we typically associate with depression, such as crying, moping, and an inability to get started with any task…
