It’s top of the general list of links for the day, in the 3rd December edition of The Daily Mail in the UK, a woman recounts her experience of surviving and taking an abusive teacher to court. The link is here for when it moves off the links list later this week.
– Ken
It seems like the internet gets a pretty bad rap, but sometimes it helps to remember how much good can come from access to the proper information – My recovery from mental illness started on the Internet. I knew I had an eating disorder before I was diagnosed. But before I took that giant leap…
This is important work done by the Internet Watch Foundation, and I’m glad they see how important the mental health impact can be. “Our analysts see more distressing images in a day than most see in their lifetime. Day in, day out, we see many children whose peace of mind is ruined by an internet…
I find Erin’s story interesting because I think it is easy to look at a teenager, especially one who’s not exhibiting the signs we saw on the TV news story about teenagers and drugs/depression, and assume “it’s just a phase”. It might not be: “I clung to the idea that mental illness came for other…
AOL News reported last week that another male survivor of abuse at the camp where Republican Scott Brown was abused as a child, has disclosed and reported his own abuse to the authorities following the publication of the politician’s memoir, Despite not being the most popular man of the past few months due to wrangling…
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Psychotherapy Works Is Still News to Many In the U.S., consumers are constantly bombarded with pharmaceutical advertising describing the many benefits of different psychiatric medications (Depression hurts. No duh!). But consumers get no marketing about the benefits of psychotherapy, and often still have old, stigmatizing misconceptions about how it works and how expensive it is….
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