I remember when my therapist asked me this question after we had reached a point where she knew I wasn’t a risk to myself, and had stabilized enough to start looking forward. It was a huge turning point in my mental health… There is one question though, that I ask clients early and often. It’s…
“The news that 52-year-old Seattle grunge rock icon Chris Cornell had killed himself after a concert in Detroit shocked and saddened fans of the Soundgarden frontman. But perhaps even more shocking is the fact that Cornell was one of scores of middle-aged American men who took their own lives on Wednesday: 121 Americans die by…
Whatever your opinion of the family and their beliefs, the girls were underage victims who deserved the anonymity that we would expect any underage victim to get. If we allow this to go just because they were famous, or we don’t really like the family anyway, then we are sending the message that not every child who was sexually abused deserves their privacy.
This is so important, for men especially, but also for anyone who’s depression does not “look” like we expect it to. “One client I had was a young man who was extremely depressed. His tests showed his depression at over the 90th percentile but the teachers at his school had no idea. They thought that…
I’ve seen this too, and I’ve struggled with it at times. “I know at least in my situation, I’m terrified that one day I may have a serious setback again that requires hospitalization. What does that say to all of the people that have read my book or followed me on Twitter as I declare,…
As survivors, I know many of us struggle with taking compliments, and they can even be very disturbing, because our default thought might be “what does this person want from me?” So I thought this paragraph really applied to many of us. “When someone thanks you for helping them, or expresses gratitude for your kind…
