“According to new research, sexual victimization by women is more common than gender stereotypes would suggest. “
Speaking of there not being a “type” of person who commits sexual assault against children, there are a lot of interesting numbers coming from studies in this article. Go read it, and prepare to be surprised.
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/11/the-understudied-female-sexual-predator/503492/
“Depression is emotional. It is not logical. People often try to explain and rationalize to others why they shouldn’t be depressed, or tell them to look on the bright side and start pointing out all of the positives they should be seeing, etc. But the truth is, depression is an emotional state of being that…
I found this article and I really wanted to share it because I think there’s some insight here for many folks who are suddenly working from home. As someone who works from home normally, there are some important things to remember that often get overlooked. One, obviously, there are benefits to working from home. I…
It’s not just that surviving a traumatic childhood prevents us from learning various things in childhood that we need to learn later in life to be successful. It’s also possible that our brains aren’t developing correctly: “In brain scans from the people who lived with high stress as children, Birn and Pollak could see a…
“According to a study from Ohio State University, something as subtle as phrasing can have an effect on someone’s tolerance. Using a questionnaire designed to measure attitudes toward people with mental illness, participants were given one of two versions of the survey: In one version, all references were to “the mentally ill,” and in the…
Again, as Peter goes on to describe the issue is not that people might suddenly play some Tetris when dealing with trauma. That’s probably not going to harm them much, it’s that we, as a society, will come to expect that is the “magic pill” to help everyone deal with trauma and start dismissing it as something that’s easy to fix with some Tetris when it’s much, much more complicated than that. We shouldn’t lose sight of that fact.
