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Why I Connect with Others Suffering from A Mental Illness tags: CA Depression Alice Miller “The Newly Recognized, Shattering Effects of Child Abuse” tags: CA ChildAbuse Bristlecone Project: Portraits of Men Sexually Abused as Boys tags: CA ChildAbuse Suicide and silence: why depressed men are dying for somebody to talk to | Society | The…
Reading – Healing from Sexual Abuse: 26 Things that Work for Me
Some good ideas here, but especially important is number one on the list, recognize that healing is different for everyone. Some of the things on this list resonated with me, others did not. We are individuals after all. Healing from Sexual Abuse: 26 Things that Work for Me
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Sharing – We Didn’t Say ‘Gay’ At My High School. It Almost Cost Me My Life.
Not acknowledging the humanity of anyone is what should not be acceptable. Trying to will an entire subset of humanity out of existence because they make you uncomfortable or some religious leader has told you that they are dangerous is not acceptable.
People die from suicide when there is so much pain that they see no path forward. The solution to that is to connect with them, to show them a path forward that involves being in community with people who accept and support them. Anything less than that is a willful decision to let people die.
If that’s what your beliefs tell you to do, you need better beliefs.
Review: I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead (2003, Mike Hodges, UK)
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is a downbeat but straightforward British gangster revenge movie with none of the America-friendly cheeky-Cockney-chappie charm of any of Guy Ritchie’s films. Since it’s from the director of Get Carter, what appears straightforward soon becomes multilayered and complicated. Mike Hodges reunites to direct Clive Owen, who broke through in Hodges’…
Review: Law and Order SVU: “Loophole” (2007, US)
This is a Season 9 (06/07) Episode that aired only last week in the UK. A package is delivered to One Police Plaza featuring suspected child pornography, but when an ex-con with a record for burglary is ruled out as the suspect, Benson and Stabler re-investigate until the child and his mother are traced. When…
