Members of the Compass House tell us how recovery from mental illness isn’t a myth. Always so happy to hear the voices out there reminding people that they are not alone, and that there is hope. Keep it up! http://ijpr.org/post/compass-radio-explores-recovery-mental-illness?utm_content=bufferc72a0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer#stream/0
We still don’t want to acknowledge what is happening. We’d rather pretend that these stories of horrific abuse are made up, or a child’s imagination. They aren’t, and they need to be taken seriously. Child victims of violent and sexual crimes are not being taken seriously when they report offences, the victims’ commissioner for England…
This makes sense. We know that child abuse increases the likelihood of not only mental health issues in adulthood, but also a lack of social skills and development. Those are exactly the kinds of things that leave people desperate enough to commit crime. Treating those things would assist in providing other options. In 2016, Chicago…
First off, this is incredibly sad. There’s no other way to react to this story. Secondly, this also illustrates just what a problem the world currently has with addiction. There are far, far too many people self-medicating because they cannot get any other form of help, whether that is because of a lack of available…
Laugh a little, and since we know that social media companies are designing themselves to show you more of what you already think, watch a few more things that make you laugh, so they can show you more. It’s good for you, and it goes a long way toward keeping us sane when our healing…
Emotional neglect happens, and the damage it causes can be similar to being abused, in that a child will fail to develop a sense of themselves and their place in the world. As they become adults, they do not have to tools to conduct themselves in the adult world without a great amount of difficulty….
