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Link – Chicago-area Advocate program helps children recover from sexual abuse
“For months, Erin Hagerty tried to get the young boy to open up about his traumatic past. Instead, he spent entire sessions avoiding eye contact, staring at the wall and refusing to speak. But Hagerty, a clinical psychologist with the Advocate Childhood Trauma Treatment Program didn’t give up on the child, who had been abandoned…

Link – 5 ways to talk about mental health with a mate
We talk about things like this, but we also must face the fact that it’s easier to let this go even when we know it isn’t true: Sometimes we say we’re fine when we’re not. Everyone has done it. But, with 1 in 4 people experiencing a mental health problem this year alone, the truth…
Link – Sex After Trauma (Pt. II): The Psychology Behind My Promiscuity
“Hypersexuality is a common side effect of sexual trauma (as is avoiding sex altogether). I didn’t know this at the time I wrote that piece. During that period of my life, I wasn’t just, “taking a guy home from the party because I wanted to.” I was actively going on Tinder and looking for guys…

Links I’m Sharing (weekly)
Feeling Less Alone This Mental Health Awareness Month We Need to Get Rid of the Stigma Around Mental Health Mental Health Therapy Can Help, So Give It a Second Chance Theo Fleury’s greatest goal: The hockey legend turns to tech to help others (like him) heal after trauma Should I Quit Therapy? A Parent’s Guide…

Sharing – Mental health ‘warmlines’: Not hotlines, they help before a crisis
This seems like a pretty decent idea, but I have some reservations. What do you think about this idea? Unlike a hotline for those in immediate crisis, warmlines provide early intervention with emotional support that can prevent a crisis – and a more costly 911 call or ER visit. The lines are typically free, confidential…

Reviews Elsewhere – Burn This City to the Ground – N. Daniel
Terri over on the Bookly Matters website has a review of this book, and describes it as:
Part memoir and part heart-to-heart expose on the tragic and invisible lives of the underprivileged, mentally ill, disabled and homeless, you may not like all the people you will meet in this book, but you will definitely find yourself touched by them, and the circumstances they find themselves in.