A Rare Story of Survival – At 13, Alicia Kozak was lured from home by an internet predator. At 14 she decided she would use her story to educate and help others Podcast: Male Survivors of Sexual Assault and Abuse Being Ashamed of Our Shame We Need To Pay Better Attention To Loved Ones’ Mental…
I suspect there’s a lot to the answer to this question right here but I’ll explain more: What Does “Love” Mean? Of course, it depends on how we define “love.” Unfortunately, our concept of love is often limited by the idea of being “in love” with another person, with butterflies in our stomachs and a…
I think the statistics coming from the text service in the UK are interesting. In the 10 months since Shout launched as the UK’s first 24/7, free and confidential crisis text service, our trained volunteers have had 250,000 conversations. Around 18,000 of these have been with children under 13. Suicide is the main issue that…
I don’t know how successful this partnership will be, but I applaud them for trying something new. Doing nothing is not going to be successful. If a redditor is flagged as struggling with serious self-harm or suicide, they will receive an immediate private message with various resources and a recommendation to text the key phrase…
How This Barber Uses His Shop To Improve Black Men’s Mental Health Guest Post: Building Self-Esteem After a Difficult Childhood Standing up for men’s mental health 5 resources to help educate parents in fight against child sexual abuse Opinion: University mental health resources are inadequate, students need more than goat yoga and therapy dogs Managing…
I have to admit, I did not know this. “A 2012 paper by the American Association of Suicidology cites decades of studies that underscore the training gap, and experts say not much has changed in the last several years. It found about half of psychology students receive formal classroom training on suicide during their graduate education. Only…
