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Reading – To Be a Friend to a Survivor of Child Sexual Abuse
I would actually add one more to the list: Don’t be so serious all the time. Nothing makes me feel like more of a freak than having the people closest to me walking on eggshells around me. Remind me of the fun parts of life instead of worrying about upsetting me. If you were the…
Link – Last night’s Panorama on antidepressants was propaganda, not journalism
Not living in the UK, I haven’t seen this program, but I’ve seen a few people with similar reactions, and if this is what the BBC did, it’s dangerous. “Antidepressants -A prescription for murder? The title may be a question, but it is asking us to ponder a point that we have previously had no reason to…
Couple of Good Resources
So, when I originally starting using Twitter to push out updates on what was going on with the Abuse Survivors Network, I thought I’d probably get a few followers to that account among the members of the network, and maybe have a few tweets about survivor issues, but not necessarily much. As it turns out…
Link – 10 Things Emotionally Neglected Kids Grow Up Believing — That Are NOT True
A similar thing could be said of children of any type of abuse. One thing I do know for sure, is we absorb a lot of messages that are not true. Including some of the ones in this article. Growing up in an emotionally neglectful household (Childhood Emotional Neglect, or CEN) takes its toll on…
Review: Not Alone By Jenny Tomlin
After writing two books of her own before moving to fiction, abuse survivor and author Jenny Tomlin interviewed other survivors she met before during and after the composition of her own story and has told their stories, and like the American book Strong At The Heart for teens, Not Alone features four male survival stories…
