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We need Advocates Now More than Ever
Mental Health Struggles Don’t Take a Holiday
Mental health apps: How to find one that works
Students Feel Anxious About COVID-19. Why Aren’t They Turning to Campus Mental Health Resources For Help?
‘Boys do cry’: Georgie Wileman chronicles the private experience of male depression
Making a Difference One Person at a Time
Talking to your young athletes about sexual abuse
Rural Louisiana communities have less access to mental health care; How groups are closing the gap
My Top 5 Mental Health Lessons For 2021
Link – Does Childhood Emotional Neglect Cause Avoidant Personality Disorder?
Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN): When your parents fail to respond enough to your emotions and emotional needs. What happens to a child whose parents too seldom say, “What’s wrong?” and then listen with care to her answer. How does it affect a child to have parents who are blind to what he is feeling? Parents…
Link – Narrating Medicine: The Long Lasting Impact Of Child Abuse
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…
Sharing – Why Didn’t Anyone Stop Jeffrey Epstein?
There’s a lot in the article below to consider, but I think this paragraph is a good starting point: Part of that answer has to do with the clubby collusion that comes naturally to the rich and powerful, of course. But part also has to do with the mind-set of Epstein’s generation around sex. The…
Link – The Long Legacy of Childhood Verbal Abuse
“The impact of verbal aggression and abuse tends to be discounted and marginalized in our culture; there seems to be an unspoken agreement that such abuse is “only words,” as people cite the children’s rhyme: “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words shall never hurt me.” But science couldn’t be more categorical in its…
