Oakland may send mental health experts, not police, for some 911 calls
Amid concerns about grad student mental health, one university takes a novel approach
From Schizophrenia to Megalomania, Three New Books on Mental Illness
How to Worry Less What Other People Think Of You – I agree with step 1 – understand that other people don’t think about you much at all. It’s a freeing realization.
Yes, absolutely! Thankfully, trauma doesn’t have to be the end. We know if individuals get help and have a support system, they can heal. They are resilient. The trouble is, many kids who are being abused wound up vulnerable to abusive situations because they didn’t have that support system in place to start with. Children…
Series 8 of Law and Order Criminal Intent returned to UK Screens last night. It opened with a Goren and Eames story after a drug-dealing blackmailer is murdered. Since it’s not the Special Victims Unit strand, the child abuse angle follows through to the end as an added twist. However it receives equal weight in…
The choice to share your story or not, and who to share it with, is an intensely personal one. This article points out some of the benefits of doing it, but doesn’t really address the reasons why a survivor might not share. What do you think? What made you decide to share, or not share?…
Louisiana to spend $500K to keep suicide prevention hotline runni Childhood abuse increases risk of adult suicide, finds research Don’t Say Things that Make Depression Worse for a Loved One Bucks County aims to train 25,000 to prevent child abus Live Your Life for You, Not to Please Expectations Free Webinar: Identifying Past Trauma Responsible…
I enjoyed this article because it highlights not just how irresponsible some of the media reporting around health studies, specifically mental health studies is, but how it happens because, IMHO, people don’t actually understand statistics. Let me provide a completely made-up example to demonstrate this as simply as I can. Let’s say that right now,…
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