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Sharing – Is Mental Health Stigma Decreasing? It’s Complicated
We can, and should, do everything we can to get out good information and share the truth about mental health issues. We can, and should, share our own stories of the mental health issues we’ve survived, especially those of us who have had many of these issues due to the trauma we suffered.
But that will never be enough for some people. Knowing the truth about these issues, and knowing what people need in terms of non-stigmatizing support won’t be enough to change their actual behavior. The very topic(s) will make them uncomfortable and they will act out of that discomfort instead of relying on what they know. They will put their own comfort above any consideration of how stigmatizing their actions and words are because they simply cannot handle even the slightest discomfort in their lives.
That is their weakness, not ours.
Sharing – Red Flags of child sex abusers from an ex-child abuse detective
We’ve spent so much time looking at lists like this one, looking for the bad people, and that is absolutely part of abuse prevention. Still, we’ve missed the boat on what might be the most significant tool in our prevention toolkit, taking the target off kids by connecting with them as parents and with other trusted adults—helping them be less vulnerable.
Kids who don’t have secrets make terrible targets for abusers. Kids with support and secure relationships aren’t easily manipulated and aren’t too eager to please adults.
We need our kids to be more of that, starting with having close relationships with the safe adults in their lives.
RT @SurvivorNetwork: What I’m Sharing for Survivors (weekly): What it’s like to secretly live with mental health issues tags: CA Depre… …
RT @SurvivorNetwork: What I’m Sharing for Survivors (weekly): What it’s like to secretly live with mental health issues tags: CA Depre… …
RT @SurvivorNetwork: What I’m Sharing for Survivors (weekly): What it’s like to secretly live with mental health issues tags: CA Depre… …
what I am passionate about , helping survivors heal and ending the sexual abuse to children ……………………….I think a women president will help more then any sex offending male president and history has proved the men will use interns sexually and cover it up how can a person in authority really help end abuse when he is an abuser ? well of course he can’t ………..if Hillary runs for office I will vote for her………………..
Personally, as a man, I find your logic to be incredibly sexist. To think that any man is automatically an abuser and to vote for a woman regardless of her own record just because she is a woman is the worst kind of stereotype. The fact is that abusers come from all walks of life and both sexes.
I am basing my post on the past history of the US presidents , so many books are available for us to read and really the men in office have been sex offenders , try reading ONCE UPON A SECRET BY MIMI ALFORD , this story really was the trigger that caused me to think even more like I am …..after you read it please let me know whet you think………….
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