What It Really Feels Like to Dissociate — And How To Feel Better
Action on childhood trauma ‘could help solve drug death crisis’
That feeling you can’t name? It’s called emotional exhaustion
The Eraser: Confronting childhood trauma through art and photography
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This is another reminder that there’s no excuse to dismiss the damage done to human beings when they are abused. Kids do not get over it, or barely remember it. They are impacted in myriad ways well into adulthood. Not doing everything we can to limit trauma, let alone arguing for policies that create more trauma for certain groups of children, cannot be tolerated.
When we picture the disorder, we often see a returned soldier, usually male, wrestling with emotional scars from the battlefield. In reality, one out of every nine suffers is female. Women are twice as likely to experience PTSD as men. Child abuse, sexual assault, rape, a physical attack, and being a part of or witnessing…
Google+ For Social Workers: 95 Excellent Pages tags: CA Best of 2013: GoodTherapy.org’s Top 10 Websites for PTSD/Trauma tags: CA Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse Nov/Dec 2013 Edition tags: CA MIT & MGH Collaborate on Vaccine to Prevent PTSD tags: CA Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
The New Mental Health Crisis Hotline Could Save Lives—and Cost Them– The details about rolling this out and funding the service and all of the services callers are referred to will determine how successful it is.
How one teacher uses books to help students with emotions like anxiety, grief
Statistics show sexual abuse may be more common than you think.
