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To hide the child sexual abuse that I was suffering at home, I tried to be perfect. tags: CA Why Young Sexual Assault Victims Tell Incoherent Stories tags: CA Dylan Farrow’s Child Abuse Accusations : What Have We Learned About When, and How to Help Victims tags: CA Blog Against Child Abuse January 2014 Edition tags:…
Reviews Elsewhere – 7 Top Books That Will Help You Heal Trauma
Sandra Pawula has a few things to say about trauma, and recommends 7 books she has used to help understand trauma and how to heal from it, you should definitely check out her list if you’re in the market to find a new resource. http://alwayswellwithin.com/2017/10/28/top-books-healing-trauma/ Have you read any of the books on her list?…
Sharing – Meet the people falling through the gaps of the mental health care system
We all deserve access to resources that would help us avoid becoming a danger to ourselves. These resources shouldn’t be limited to people like me, who are lucky enough to have family support to help cover the extra costs, and they shouldn’t require that we wait around for people to reach the point of needing to be hospitalized before we offer them any. That middle ground is full of people who deserve better.Â
Sharing – How to support someone with depression
We often underestimate how much we can help because we live in a society constantly looking for a quick solution to problems. Depression doesn’t have that, which leads us to feel helpless to solve the problem. That being said, there is nothing better when dealing with depression than knowing that someone (preferably multiple people) is going to be with you during the struggle. Everything seems overwhelming when you’re in the midst of depression; you need someone to make it just a little less so.Â
Sharing – Twenty-year study links childhood depression to disrupted adult health and functioning
This is a really detailed, long-term study and shows us something I think many of us suspect. That kids who develop depression are more likely to go on to struggle as adults in many different ways.
Also, that the kids who developed symptoms and got treatment, showed fewer issues than kids with symptoms who were unable to get treatment, but not as few as kids who didn’t have symptoms to start with.
