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Protect Our Children: Unlocking the Mind tags: CA What I Want To Say To All Victims of Abuse | Journal of a Male Childhood Abuse Survivor tags: CA Nearly one in four people experienced sexual abuse as a child. Why is this swept under the carpet? tags: CA Posted from Diigo. The rest of my…
Link – Can we please stop labelling ourselves with our mental illnesses?
I’ve often said something similar about being a survivor of abuse, it’s not all we are, we are a million other things as well. Perhaps we should take that same practice to mental health? You may have depression, but it’s not the sum total of you as a person, is it? “You wouldn’t say you…
Link – Mental Illness Is More than ‘Worried Wellness’
Dismissing people who are genuinely suffering, and implying that they’d be fine if they’d simply stop worrying, is a costly error in judgment. It’s time to retire condescending stereotypes like “the worried well.” Mental illness doesn’t always take forms as dramatic as a broken leg or a harsh cough, but it deserves proper treatment as…
Sharing – Is It Dangerous to Believe in a Just World?
The danger comes in when we try to rationalize this belief because it demands we find a reason why whenever someone suffers some sort of calamity. Otherwise, we’d have to admit the world isn’t fair. We don’t want to do that, so we make up a reason why they deserve it.
This, of course, is classic victim blaming
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