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Link – We Need to Support Mental Illness, Even When It’s Not Cute
“I completely get it. It’s easy to say you accept mental health issues until you actually see it. Sometimes, it’s messy. Sometimes, it involves F-bombs. It’s easy to look at her and just think she’s “one of those bad kids.” But she only swears when she’s really feeling bad and is starting to lose control. I…
Link – Child sex abuse images increasingly being found and removed
“Nearly 70,000 pictures and videos showing child sex abuse have been removed from the internet in the past year, the UK charity leading the efforts to combat the abuse has said.” This is good work being done by the IWF, and while it’s scary to think about how many images there are out there, it’s…
Links I’m Sharing (weekly)
Podcast: Sexual Abuse: The Last Stage in Recovery Workplace mental health: how to be caring, not just compliant Sexual abuse survivors rally across Japan calling for law reform How to Talk to Someone with Depression The Men’s Mental Health Double-Bind “On the one hand, men are being told to talk more and open-up; on the…
Link – Can we use big data to fight child abuse? The answer is complicated
I will be interested in this trend – “Analyzing historical data to forecast an event is called predictive analytics, and it’s already being used in some industries; credit card companies, for instance, use predictive analytic tools to detect fraud. In the case of child and family services, these tools could be used to process historical…
Link – How Accurate is the “Cycle of Abuse”?
We aren’t all the same. Also, being abused as a child may mean struggles, it may mean having to learn some skills that you didn’t learn as a kid, and it may mean having to dig deep to find your strength. It does not mean you are destined to be anything. Stop believing those bad…
Reviews Elsewhere – Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermining America
Came upon this review from the Mental Health at Home blog, and something about it really hit home with me. I think in the survivor, and mental health, communities we have a real problem, and that problem has to do with how many people have this very strange way of defining “thinking positively”. So when…
