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ByMikeM November 24, 2019December 20, 2020 Reading Time: 1 minute

When Your Partner Was Sexually Abused as a Child: A Guide for Partners Mental Illness Behind Bars: The Lessons of Orleans Parish https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/health/ex-footballer-paul-stewart-s-heartbreaking-story-to-highlight-the-need-to-take-men-s-mental-health-seriously-1-10112459 Techniques to Spot Childhood Depression Solutions To Stop Sexual Violence Against Children Covered In New Report 5 Ways To Check If Your Children Are Safe Online The lifelong cost of burying our…

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Reviews Elsewhere – Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermining America
ByMikeM November 23, 2019November 22, 2019 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Came upon this review from the Mental Health at Home blog, and something about it really hit home with me. I think in the survivor, and mental health, communities we have a real problem, and that problem has to do with how many people have this very strange way of defining “thinking positively”. So when…

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Sharing – Loneliness is a social cancer, every bit as alarming as cancer itself
ByMikeM November 22, 2019November 21, 2019 Reading Time: 1 minute

Following up on yesterday’s post about technology and loneliness, and even a topic that also came up on the Moments of Clarity show yesterday too, comes this from Australia. Why is this topic important? See for yourself – First, loneliness is a killer. An influential meta-analysis, which collated and analysed the results of nearly 150…

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Loneliness Is A Mental Health Issue, Can Technology Help?
ByMikeM November 21, 2019November 22, 2020 Reading Time: 3 minutes

As you may know, I am a believer that technology can help us keep in touch, especially if, like me, you have relocated and aren’t geographically close to some of your closest friends and family members. I was reading the article today about Australian nursing home residents and other elderly people, and the use of…

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Sharing – Building Emotional Intelligence Isn’t as Hard as You Think
ByMikeM November 18, 2019November 18, 2019 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Emotional intelligence is something that I struggled with while I was healing, and as I look around the child abuse survivor community, I think that struggle is common. All too often we never really learned these skills as kids, and are also usually really good at masking our emotions, even from ourselves. But, this can…

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ByMikeM November 17, 2019July 8, 2022 Reading Time: 1 minute

Teachers need better training to combat child sex abuse, says charity Depression and Marriage: Dealing with a Depressed Spouse Honouring Veterans Means Caring About Their Mental Health #MeToo includes too many children; we all need to look out for them Updated: Reality of children’s mental health issues are terrifying with few answers How Group Therapy…

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Sharing – Loneliness is a social cancer, every bit as alarming as cancer itself

Loneliness Is A Mental Health Issue, Can Technology Help?

Sharing – Building Emotional Intelligence Isn’t as Hard as You Think

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