What we see there is that mental health problems can create debt. When we cannot work, our healthcare costs skyrocket, and we can find ourselves in a poor financial situation. That poor financial situation creates more stress and emotional labor, contributing to mental health issues.
Whether the mental health problem or financial struggle came first doesn’t matter. Once we are in the cycle, it will continue round and round.
That’s what cycles do.
The second episode of Protecting Our Children aired on Monday night on BBC2. Whilst it suffered from some of the same faults as the first part, since the rounding up of the story was finished with subtitles this was slightly less of a hatchet job on the family concerned (though of course this could be…
Liam Adams, brother of Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams, is to be extradited following child abuse claims by his daughter, two years after the allegations surfaced in a TV documentary. The BBC has the updated story here and the historical background from last year is on the Daily Mail website here. – CBG
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?…
That seems to be the findings of a study that was released last August. My wife actually sent this to me, saddened that this may be true. Like any study, of course, it may be more likely to cause issues later in life, but it’s not a guarantee in every individual. At the end of…
One of the people involved with the Authentic Intimacy organization reached on to me through the Facebook page and shared a recent podcast they had done with a couple of female survivors of sexual abuse about taking the first steps toward healing. Now, Authentic Intimacy is a Christian-based organization and this podcast is as well….
