Reading – They’re Invisible In China: Portraits Of The Mentally Ill
This is profoundly sad, and somewhat shocking, because there simply are no resources available to treat mental illness.
This is profoundly sad, and somewhat shocking, because there simply are no resources available to treat mental illness.
No one should be thrown into online, or offline, society without meaningful education about things like consent, what constitutes illegal behavior, the signs of grooming and so on. It’s just setting them up for failure, and victimization. Why would we do that to anyone? Or do people with intellectual and development disabilities not deserve that same consideration?
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It’s been two days since Anne Marie Carrie, the new Chief Executive of the long standing UK charity Barnado’s sounded the warning about internal child trafficking in the UK for child abuse purposes. As usual, the media have moved on to other things, leaving interested parties to read their 30-page official report. You can find…
It’s an easy copout for the mental health community to suggest self-care items that will help with mental health without acknowledging the reality for many. Telling people to do things like create more space for sleep, or make healthier food choices while still not making a wage that would pay for those things is just mean. What we do as a society matters when it comes to the mental health of all of our members. We can’t hide from that fact.
434 Applications for witnesses to speak and a timescale from 1922 to 1995 makes the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) Inquiry, the largest in British history. The BBC has the story here although any evidence leading to a prosecution of accused former employees will be held in closed sessions.
What Rebekah is writing about isn’t finding the meaning that would define why we were abused. That’s toxic. What she is writing about is finding what it means to live with childhood trauma.
The question we often ask ourselves about being abused is the simplest one to answer, but we’ve gotten it twisted.
Why was I abused? Because someone else decided to abuse me.
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