It’s difficult to get anyone to talk about being sexually abused, and we also know that for male victims they also get the additional stigma attached to not being “man enough”. But then there’s this: The study, which examined child rape laws in 40 countries, found that just under half of jurisdictions lacked legal protections…
Mental Health and Celebrating Accomplishments: Take Note of Acts of Self-care Each Day Mental health remains the poor relation Resisting Recovery: When Mental Illness Becomes Our Identity Reddit User Posts About Being Unable to Find Mental Health Support Parents can support mental health by fighting stigmas Abusers Groom Victims into Accepting the Abuse How to…
This is a really good description of what I have heard referred to as “sitting with their pain”. ““Don’t let your own feelings of anger or sadness get in the way of you being there for your partner,” Ms. Engel said. Getting angry, even at the person who did this to your friend or loved…
It may not be the most popular, positive advice you’ve ever heard, but it is reality. In any relationship, you can only give what you have, and if you are neglecting your own needs, eventually, that will lead to having nothing. In the case of trying to support someone dealing with depression or healing from…
As I’ve been writing recently, when childhood trauma goes untreated, or not prevented in the first place, it can often lead to problems with addiction in adulthood, as well as many other things. (Not in everyone, but it is a significant factor statistically) Now we see that not doing anything about that childhood trauma, is…
Why do we often miss depression in men, and in teenage boys? This might have something to do with it: Part of the difficulty was that my friend’s symptoms were more about impatience, irritability, and anger than the behaviors we typically associate with depression, such as crying, moping, and an inability to get started with…
