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Coming up on October 10th.
‘By going public I wanted to tell other abuse victims they’re not to blame’
In a bit of a followup to my own post earlier this week, I found this comment of James’s from the article below interesting, and insightful: “So when we look at the news and social media or listen to our conversations, we need to observe carefully, not just the content we are taking in, but…
The bad news, however, might be that almost everyone does this. So instead of connecting with each other, we are each stressing over all the things we may have done wrong when we interacted. Which isn’t great. That makes it harder to connect with other people, which has a ton of negative effects on our mental health.
This is something many of us in the child abuse survivor community have known about for awhile. Society as a whole seems to be having a similar problem. “Of course we are moving away from touch!” exclaims Francis McGlone, a professor in neuroscience at Liverpool John Moores university and a leader in the field of…
“One in six boys in the United States has experienced sexual abuse before turning 18. With few IRL recovery options, more of them are going online for support.” Reading the details of what some male survivors have had to deal with as they search for support resources is awful. I’m glad that the internet, and…
asking for help with your mental health problems tags:CA Depression Male sexual abuse by a woman is not a rite of passage tags:CA ChildAbuse Author Rachel Thompson on Why Writing Your Survival Story Isn’t Self-Indulgent tags:CA ChildAbuse End The Shame Game: 3 Ways To Help Your Child Heal From Sexual Abuse tags:CA ChildAbuse Anna Burke…
