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Playing with Fire (PWF), co-written with Kirstie McLellan Day is Theoren Fleury’s autobiography released at the end of last year and delayed by a postal strike in the UK. It goes off in a different direction to Why I Didn’t Say Anything (WIDSA) by Sheldon Kennedy, despite both players having been abused by Graham James….
A sex offender who wanted to conceal his history and then-current child sexual abuse accusation from his wife at the end of last year, murdered her last January. Today, he was sentenced at Preston Court to life, serving just under 20 years separately to the abuse charges which he admitted. Read the story at The…
As a kid, I needed everything to be perfect, not because I was some overachiever. It was because I knew in my heart and body that anything that wasn’t right could create a violent situation. Any detail overlooked, any warning sign missed, or any wrong word could end up with me getting abused. It became a learned behavior like Pavlov’s dogs. Any mistake created anxiety and fear of repercussion.
Common Things Parents Say to Their Kids about Therapy that Aren’t Helpful tags: CA Depression Trauma Survivors Have Symptoms Instead of Memories tags: CA ChildAbuse How Do We Stop Childhood Adversity from Becoming a Life Sentence. tags: CA ChildAbuse Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Look, we know that untreated mental health issues impact people’s lives in many ways. Would the lack of treatment at 20 for bipolar make a huge difference in lifetime income? Of course, it would impact the ability to even finish college successfully and that would then continue to impact things significantly. Would the need to take leaves of absence or go to work every day with depression and no access to help for that cause you to be less successful? Again, statistically, I think that would be obvious that it happens more times than not.
“Genetic Disorder” might be a new season episode but the writers have taken “If These Walls Could Talk,” changed the age and gender of the sole killer and the second case turns out to be hidden or cold whilst someone close to one of the team becomes a suspect due to the evidence. There’s also…