Link – Narrating Medicine: The Long Lasting Impact Of Child Abuse

ByMikeM Reading Time: 1 minute

There are several hypotheses on why re-victimization happens. Children come to view themselves as “damaged goods” who don’t deserve or shouldn’t expect better. Abused children aren’t able to recognize safe from unsafe people, and if they do, they don’t have the internal or external resources to protect themselves from danger.

In a recently published study, a team of researchers from the University of Washington found that substance misuse, particularly blackout drinking, predicted incapacitated sexual re-victimization.

This is all something that many of us recognize, if not in ourselves, than in other survivors we have known. And I do believe that seeing ourselves as damaged is a big part of that, which is sad because surviving should teach us that we are strong, and can survive anything.

That’s the truth we struggle to learn.

Narrating Medicine: The Long Lasting Impact Of Child Abuse

Similar Posts

Reading – 5 Ways We Misunderstand Pedophilia (That Makes it Worse)

ByMikeM Reading Time: 1 minute

This is tough. Most of us don’t want to do anything but punish pedophiles, but at the same time, if we are truly trying to protect kids, not having any information at all about pedophilia is problematic. How do we know what we’re doing now works without the ability to study people with a professed…

Sharing – This Is Why Toxic Positivity Does More Harm Than Good

Sharing – This Is Why Toxic Positivity Does More Harm Than Good

ByMikeM Reading Time: 2 minutes

I agree with Rachel on this, offering positive platitudes is often easier than allowing ourselves to feel anything, so it’s what we offer people who are feeling so much more than that. “I truly believe that ultimately, we all want to be listened to and supported. We don’t want to be told why our feelings…

Link – Speak the Evil

Link – Speak the Evil

ByMikeM Reading Time: 1 minute

Like evil, mental health issues only get stronger in silence. I very much agree with Matthew here, regardless of how awkward the conversation may be, you need the people around you to know what is happening. While somewhat understandable (who really wants to acknowledge depression’s vice-grip?), silence is deadly. It isolates, fueling additional avoidance strategies….

Link – Facts and falsities of male sexual abuse

Link – Facts and falsities of male sexual abuse

ByMikeM Reading Time: 1 minute

This article out of Lincoln, Nebraska throws out this statistic, in an interview with the Child Advocacy Center. It does not provide an explanation of where it came from, but I am very curious to know if anyone has seen it before: “Only about 16 percent of men with documented histories of sexual abuse consider…

Sharing – Your Burnout Is Unique. Your Recovery Will Be, Too.

Sharing – Your Burnout Is Unique. Your Recovery Will Be, Too.

ByMikeM Reading Time: 2 minutes

As the authors point out, your approach to self-care should be different depending on what is causing the burnout. If you’re just exhausted from a lack of sleep, overwork, etc. taking a day to rest, relax, and take care of yourself might be the best thing you can do for yourself. (Recognizing, as mentioned above, that if you’re overworked, fixing that falls on other people and the company) On the other hand, if you’re burned out from watching the news, and developing really a very cynical outlook of other people. spending a day isolating yourself from social connections even further, might not really be the best option. So, self care starts to look a little different depending on not only your own individual preferences, but also what it is that is causing these feelings of burnout. 

Of course, the struggle here is knowing yourself, and your emotions.

8 Comments

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.