“The app is designed to help CPS, law enforcement and medical personnel to evaluate children who may have been abused. The app includes educational videos (over 60 in all) to describe the mechanisms of injury and evaluation of accidental or inflicted pediatric injuries including bruises, burns, head injuries, fractures, and abdominal injuries. The app includes…
These are pretty good. If you believe any of them, you should maybe re-think your strategy for keeping your kids safe. It truly isn’t as simple as checking the registry and telling your kids to avoid strangers. Despite what those who created those sorts of tools tell you, the vast majority of abuse victims are…
““The millisecond my hands left the rail, it was an instant regret,” he says.” A powerful story of someone who beat the odds of surviving a fall from the bridge, but also has a message for those who think that mental health issues cannot be overcome. Man Who Survived Suicide Attempt Off Golden Gate Bridge…
“For the one with mental illness, there is the illness itself, plus a whole host of other feelings: the vulnerability that comes with letting someone truly see you as you are, the anger when they don’t get it, the guilt when they reassure you, the shame that you aren’t easily “fixed,” the fear that one…
“So what happens when we say “get over it” to someone with depression that is driven by unconscious repression? Here, the “get over it” confronts the depressed mind with an impossible task: (1) gain conscious control of an unconscious process that is currently operating out of your awareness, or (2) do a thing you simply…
“As predictable as the appearance of Santa Claus in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, the holiday season is a time of well-meaning warnings and hand-wringing about depression and suicides. But while the stereotype of the lonely relative overcome by emotion during the “most wonderful time of year” has become fairly entrenched in pop culture, it’s…
