This Week’s Links (weekly)
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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’ve been saying this for awhile now, that nothing helps us grow beyond our struggles like coming through the other side of something difficult. “As depression and fatigue are both highly susceptible to changes in a person’s sense of his or her own ability to achieve a certain goal, which is known as self-efficacy, McAuley…
Interesting findings, and maybe something that shines more light around some things we’ve seen going back years about how much staying in contact with patients helps them stay connected. “In the first randomized controlled trial of its kind, a research team investigated the impact of a texting intervention as an add-on to a mental health…
Woman’s Journey Helps Empower Sexual Abuse Survivors – Carrollwood, FL Patch tags: CA Blog Against Child Abuse – March 2012 Edition tags: CA Erasing Self Abuse tags: CA Protecting Children from Sexual Abuse tags: CA 18 Tips to Bounce Back from Just About Anything | Bounce Back: Develop Your Resiliency tags: CA Mordechai Jungreis Determined…
This is why I look for the definition when I read anything about being fully healed. What does being healed mean to you? Is your definition possible? A definition that includes the abuse having zero impact on who you are today? Because that’s not realistic. But it also doesn’t mean you can’t go on to have a healed life while acknowledging that it is still part of who you are.
It was a traumatic event; they became part of us. They don’t have to rule us, though. That’s healed.
“One in six men are sexually abused as boys, according to multiple studies. But a much smaller number ever talk about it. Most suffer in silence. I want this story to reach those who have gone through any form of sexual abuse, from the teenager struggling with his own silence to the man who has…