This Week’s Links (weekly)
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tags: CA Depression
tags: CA ChildAbuse
Male Survivor Book Project – 2014 – This Tangled Web
tags: CA ChildAbuse
People who suffer mental illness can live, love, and work again
tags: CA Depression
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This is true for trafficking, and it’s true for child sexual abuse, and it’s true for a variety of other ways in which people might try to take advantage of someone. People with poor mental health, poor connections to other people, and living in chaotic situations are more vulnerable. The best tool to prevent these things is to work on having fewer vulnerable people.
Mental health resources could go a long way.
There is some good advice in the article about how to create, and maintain, healthy boundaries with a variety of toxic parent “types”, but I will always fall back on one fact of life as a survivor of childhood abuse, we came out of childhood with no idea of what a boundary is, let alone why we would create one. We were never given the opportunity to learn or practice this skill.
It’s OK if it takes us a minute to figure it out before we get it right.
Sometimes, in the midst of depression or in our struggles with other mental illnesses, it’s easy to think that we will never be able to overcome it. In the hopes that seeing some examples of others who have struggled with similar issues, and overcome them, the Masters in Healthcare site sent me a link to…
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We talk about stigma for folks dealing with mental illness, but probably no one get stigmatized more than children with mental illnesses. This a great story about how bad it can be for those kids, but also how, with the correct, treatment, these same kids can go on and lead great lives. 5 Things I…
The quote from this article is about the situation in New Zealand, but it’s the same everywhere. After 14 suicide attempts and a long battle with mental illness, 23-year-old film director Jazz Thornton co-founded advocacy group Voices of Hope to help others going through similar struggles. “The current system isn’t working because unless you are…
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