Reading – They’re Invisible In China: Portraits Of The Mentally Ill
This is profoundly sad, and somewhat shocking, because there simply are no resources available to treat mental illness. They’re Invisible In China: Portraits Of The Mentally Ill
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Reading – 4 Myths That Make Healing Nearly Impossible
Are any of these myths holding you back from healing? I know I’ve seen comments here, and on other sites, that make me think there are still too many survivors believing these! 4 Myths That Make Healing Nearly Impossible
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Reading – Surviving Child Sexual Abuse By Helping Others
In my humble opinion, being able to use a profoundly negative experience like child abuse as a way to help others dealing with the same trauma is a great way of moving past the victim mentality. As you may know, my day job is in training, so you probably won’t be surprised that I see…
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Reading – Athletes accuse coach of years of abuse
Another youth sport infected by sexual abuse. It’s sad that something that can do so much for teaching kids self-esteem, teamwork and confidence is, in fact, stripping that all away by victimizing them instead. We need to get this eradicated from all youth sports, whether it be hockey, swimming, tae kwon do, gymnastics or any…
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Reading – Child abuse scandal shocks Pakistan, families angry with police
As if we needed more proof that child abuse happens everywhere. It’s not just one group in the US, UK, Ireland, etc. there are groups all over the world, in powerful positions who abuse children, while we continue to look for the “creepy”, anti-social guy we’ve been led to belief should be the target of…
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Reading – 6 Reasons To Reveal Childhood Sexual Abuse
The choice to share your story or not, and who to share it with, is an intensely personal one. This article points out some of the benefits of doing it, but doesn’t really address the reasons why a survivor might not share. What do you think? What made you decide to share, or not share?…