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5Â Essential Remedies for Treating Depression: Coming Back from the Brink
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Protecting children: Identifying signs of a child being groomed for sexual abuse
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Here’s what I want you to consider. As a victim of sexual abuse, who identifies as male, I go in assuming that most of the resources available are going to be targeted to women. Because, in many cases, they are only available for women. So, if your organization doesn’t make it clear that you serve everyone, with clear examples, and promotion, many male victims may not ever reach out to you.
Sharing – Why I Stayed Silent
The central question of the article below is a good one: Why Do victims of nonsexual violent crimes usually involve authorities while most rape survivors remain silent? Most of the article is about adult sexual assault, but she points out that children who are sexually abused face this same question for similar reasons. Those reasons…
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Sharing – Why We Oversimplify Psychology
As Whitney says, and I agree, the real work is in the complexities. That goes for our own mental health issues, healing from abuse, and social issues regarding these topics. We aren’t going to solve the mental health crisis by getting people to exercise more. It might help some people, but that one explanation will not work for everyone. We are all much more complex than that simple “fix” would lead us to believe, but believing it reduces the cognitive load of figuring out how to help millions of individuals.
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… …