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New Research Shows Screen Time Is Not Directly Increasing Depression or Anxiety in Teenagers Caring for a Loved One with a Mental Disorder ‘Behind every man is a childhood’ – male survivor of sexual abuse speaks out The Importance of Community and Mental Health With kids coming home for Thanksgiving, parents need to know the…
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Reagan’s son opens up about sex abuse tags: CA Jerry Sandusky trial: I wish I’d paid more attention to one young man’s pain tags: CA In child sexual abuse, strangers aren’t the greatest danger, experts say tags: CA When Someone Really Listens, We Heal tags: CA 4 Ways To Help Your Man Fight Depression tags:…

World Mental Health Day Blog Party
Over at the Psych Central website, they’ve started up a blog party in support of World Mental Health Day, World Mental Health Day is promoted by the World Health Organization to help raise awareness about mental health issues. The day promotes open discussion of mental disorders, and what the world’s governments and health organizations are…

Link – Breaking the Silence on Child Sexual Abuse
I don’t know about the African-American community, and whether there are aspects of it that make talking about sexual abuse more difficult but I will always hold that no community is immune to it. “Without question, sexual abuse is a taboo topic of the masses. It causes deep-rooted mental and emotional anguish across all sectors…
Link – Paul Gascoigne’s struggle is not entertainment. Mocking him only adds to the mental illness stigma
“So let us be clear at exactly what is happening. A national newspaper has reported the struggle of an ill celebrity and a legion of social media users are now mocking him for exhibiting signs of that illness. Would they be quite so quick to do so if the illness was a physical one? If it was…