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Sharing – ‘If you’re the bloke it’s your fault’: Why Jeffrey believed he couldn’t be a victim of abuse
ByMikeM February 22, 2025February 21, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

Boys get molested. I was one of them. Lots of other men you know were likely molested, too. Some of them may not even know because we weren’t taught that boys could be victims of sexual abuse. After all, if our bodies reacted, we must have wanted it somehow.

This reasoning is so outdated and harmful. Men who were sexually abused as children deserve to have their stories told. All survivors deserve access to support and resources. It’s the very least we can do.

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These are Odd Responses to a Mental Health Crisis
ByMikeM February 21, 2025February 21, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

We need more resources and more access to care. Not less.

We need care located where people live and work so they can remain part of their communities.

We need NIH grants to pay for more mental health research.

Our government is in the process of doing the exact opposite while claiming to care about mental health.

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Sharing – How to Find Hope When Everything Feels Hopeless
ByMikeM February 15, 2025February 15, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

Anchoring myself in the present moment means focusing on the situation in front of me and doing what I can to improve it. That can mean donating money or time to causes I care about, calling elected representatives, supporting the people around me who are suffering, speaking out where I can, educating where I can, and staying aware of opportunities to do the things I can do.

The hope doesn’t lie in one person changing everything; it lies in enough of us doing what we can to make that change.

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Threatening to harm children by defunding the NCMEC
ByMikeM February 11, 2025February 11, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

As Marisa Kabas, who should be credited with bringing all of this to light, points out, the NCMEC website no longer talks about the increased risk of trafficking to LGBTQ+ youth. They can no longer provide resources and education about those risks or information about how to support those kids. They are even expected to dead-name missing trans kids in all announcements.

They are leaving LGBTQ+ kids behind. The alternative to doing that was not to have funding to run the only reporting agency for online CSAM, the clearinghouse used by many online services and law enforcement agencies to combat CSAM and trafficking, and the primary source of information about missing children in the US.

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Shared Links (weekly) Feb. 9, 2025
ByMikeM February 9, 2025February 8, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

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Sharing – How to support someone with depression
ByMikeM February 8, 2025February 8, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

We often underestimate how much we can help because we live in a society constantly looking for a quick solution to problems. Depression doesn’t have that, which leads us to feel helpless to solve the problem. That being said, there is nothing better when dealing with depression than knowing that someone (preferably multiple people) is going to be with you during the struggle. Everything seems overwhelming when you’re in the midst of depression; you need someone to make it just a little less so.

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