Link – We are Not Weak Just Human, Reach out for Help.
Great project put together to promote Men’s mental health. Read more about how it came about here. http://www.survivingmypast.net/not-weak-just-human/
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Link – BBC to hold season of films on mental health
If you’re in the UK, you might be interested in checking out some of the programing planned on television and radio dealing with mental health. And, for those of us not in the UK, if you want to come back and let us know how the shows are and what you learn, you can always…
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Link – Depressed People Cannot Imagine This Special Thing
This is an interesting way of looking at depression, and might also explain why people who have never had depression, and those who are currently suffering, have a hard time finding common ground. Often people who are depressed complain that other people don’t understand what they are going through. But this study suggests that the…
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Link – Their View: Abused children often become victims of human trafficking
This statistic actually didn’t surprise me, because we already know that traffickers, like pedophiles, prey on vulnerable kids. Who is more vulnerable than kids who’ve already been sexually abused? Most disturbing, we found that boys who had experienced childhood sexual abuse were 8.2 times more likely to be exploited in human trafficking than boys without…
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Reviews Elsewhere – Five Books That Genuinely Improved My Happiness And Mental Health
In the interest of helping people find resources that may be helpful to them in their healing, I’m going to link to Amy Packham’s list of books that she has benefited from reading. I don’t necessarily know that all of these books would be my cup of tea, so to speak, but I know survivors…
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Link – Mental health difficulties start young – so why don’t we give primary schools more help?
This is a good question in the UK, as this story lays out. It’s also a good question for everywhere else as well. I know in the US we are lacking when it comes to providing much in the way of mental health resources for kids, as well as adults. But it’s particularly problematic because…
