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Sharing – Talking to Others About My Mental Health
I do understand this. I don’t make a habit of talking about my mental health when I get to spend time with friends, even though many of them read this blog and know about my history. Mostly, that’s because we’ve bonded for years over other things like work, shared interests, music, etc. Talking about mental health just hasn’t been what we’ve done in the past when we’re together and it’s comfortable to simply slide right back into those same roles when we are together.
There’s nothing wrong with that. Talking about mental health doesn’t have to occur each and every time we communicate with friends. We all get to have fun nights out without having that deep of a conversation. But, talking about it some of the time lets everyone in the group know that, when they need it, they can talk about it.
Two Channel 4 Programmes for CAS
It’s been ten days since UK TV Channel 4 screened two programmes with abuse themes: their fictional flagship soap Hollyoaks screened the culmination of their second male rape storyline in the show’s history, which has recurred after 16 years, sadly second time around it wasn’t as effective. Later in the same week they redeemed this…
Reading – Why Do People With Mental Illness Self-Sabotage?
I would say the reasons are the same for survivors as well. Healing requires taking responsibility for your actions going forward, and no longer having the “victim” excuse, and that identity can become so ingrained that it’s hard to let go of. I think this is a big area of struggle for any survivors who…

Mental Health America Shares BIPOC Mental Health month Toolkit
Since it is July 1, and as we continue to recognize the mental health needs related to recent events, let alone historic events, it seems almost perfectly timed for it to be what MHA is now referring to as BIPOC Mental Health Month. I’ll let them explain the origin and the name change: Formally recognized…
This Week’s Links (weekly)
Heart Attacks In Men Associated With Childhood Sexual Abuse tags: CA A Chance for New Directions in Child Abuse Prevention? tags: CA What Child Abuse Victims Need tags: CA Child Abuse Changes the Brain tags: CA Tanya Young Williams: My Confession and How to Protect Your Child from Pedophiles like Sandusky tags: CA Profile of…
Link – Leave Jake Lloyd alone: We need compassion for mental illness, not snark
Now Lloyd has been hospitalized for schizophrenia following a ten-month stint in jail, which occurred after he led South Carolina police on a high-speech car chase last June. Predictably, a great deal of the reaction from the Internet has ranged from unsympathetic to downright cruel. “Dude looks like straight sith material. Do not let him…
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RT @SurvivorNetwork: This Week’s Links (weekly): Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Offering Tools for Success tags: CA ChildAbuse Depressi… …
RT @SurvivorNetwork: This Week’s Links (weekly): Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Offering Tools for Success tags: CA ChildAbuse Depressi… …