3 Stages of Recovery from Childhood Sexual Abuse
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Demi Lovato Is Using Her Own Bipolar Disorder To Educate Others About Mental Health
tags:CA Depression
Three common strategies sexual offenders use to discredit child witnesses
tags:CA ChildAbuse
5 Facts Many People Don’t Know About Depression
tags:CA Depression
My Journey From Devastation to Restoration After Sexual Abuse
tags:CA ChildAbuse
16 Things I’ve Learned From 16 Years of Dealing With Depression
tags:CA Depression
Take disclosures of sexual abuse seriously, victim says
tags:CA ChildAbuse
Depression Is Not a Socioeconomic Disease
tags:CA Depression
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As seen over on the Psych Central site: In her riveting memoir, Blinded by Hope: My Journey Through My Son’s Bipolar Illness and Addiction, McGuire tells the story of her son Ryan who battles bipolar, addiction and incarceration. Yet on a much larger level, McGuire exposes the messy and often heartbreaking reality of mental illness….
Love the headline. Pithy as it is, it holds a very large truth about depression, and how it lies to us. “So what can you, the individual with depression, do? You need to ask for help. Waiting around for your depression to lift is miserable, and is a symptom of faulty thinking that you need…
Sometimes our coping strategies need to adjust to these new realities. That doesn’t mean you are failing, it means you need to adapt. It’s no different than what I often encounter at work, where the technology we work with and assist clients with changes and evolves, and we need to change and evolve with it. What we did yesterday isn’t going to work in today’s reality.
The same is true for our mental health toolkit. We need to keep evolving with it to adapt to changes.
Ashley provides some insight from her own experiences, but I think it all comes down to this: “If you have a mental illness and work at either a paid job or a volunteer gig, chances are at some point you’ll be faced with the question of whether to disclose your mental illness at work, and…
Over on the Child Abuse Survivor Network, Enola started up a group called Healing Books and Articles, where a few folks have already been posting books they’ve found helpful in their healing. If you’re a member, go check it out, and add your own. If you’re not a member, what are you waiting for? 🙂
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