Shared Links (weekly) Sept. 25, 2022
Jimmy Breslin’s book, “The Church That Forgot Christ“, is the account of the author’s growing discovery of and his own personal and the national reaction to, the Catholic Church child abuse scandals in the US. I had to buy the book from an Amazon seller in Ireland since it was essentially only an import to…
This is something many of us in the child abuse survivor community have known about for awhile. Society as a whole seems to be having a similar problem. “Of course we are moving away from touch!” exclaims Francis McGlone, a professor in neuroscience at Liverpool John Moores university and a leader in the field of…
“3,961 people from 29 different studies were included in the analysis. Depression is more than a mental disorder, it affects the body’s ability to detoxify itself. It should be seen as a systematic disease that affects the whole body, argues a new study in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.” And yet, there are still far…
You’re Not Alone: What College Doesn’t Teach You About Depression tags: CA Depression Matt Haig: ‘People handle you differently when they know you’re depressive’ There’s no question this is true. It was my experience as well. tags: CA Depression Six Ways We Enable Abusers tags: CA ChildAbuse How We’re Affected by the Lies Our Abuse…
I return to number 3 on this list often: 3. Take It One Day at a Time If you sit down and think that you have another month or more before life returns to normal, you will naturally gravitate towards depression. To prevent that, live life one day at a time. Concern yourself with…
The story in Canada is the same story we see everywhere else. We put people struggling with their mental health in jail because they are inconvenient and we don’t have anywhere else to put them. That there are no other available treatment options aside from throwing them in prison, possibly the worst thing we could…