“But, in actuality, I knew a lot of people struggling — they had just kept it quiet. It actually took for me to develop depression and anxiety in my mid-20s, to battle with it for some time and to finally come forward and be open about what I was going through, for people to…
Good for you Canada! There is still far too much silence and stigma around mental health issues, but it’s important to celebrate success when it appears! Is mental health awareness improving? After years of campaigns and advocacy, mental health stigma may be lessening while awareness may be increasing, according to promising new Ipsos findings…
Lots of good information in this article, about how they weren’t who you would suspect, they worked to gain the trust of a child by minimizing the other adults in their lives, especially their parents, and used technology to communicate because parents weren’t savvy enough to keep track of how their kids used technology. I’m…
Children from all backgrounds do better when they have involved parents, this study shows that truth among poor families, but I have no doubt you’d find the same truth everywhere. And abusers have a much harder time isolating kids with involved parents too. “The good news is that parents who struggle financially are still finding…
Sadly, this is true: Now that I have a kid, I’ve noticed that most parents think like this. They believe children are safe only when they are in the care of adults, in part because kids have to be protected from would-be pedophiles and abductors. But as a psychologist with an expertise in child abuse,…
‘It’s time we all get out from the idea that child molesters are socially awkward and weird. The kind of people we are suspicious of at first sight. It simply isn’t true. For someone to be able to perpetrate that much hurt, to so many children, and over such a long period of time, you…
