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Sharing – How would a new bill requiring parental consent for mental health emergencies impact child sex abuse victims?
ByMikeM November 22, 2025November 22, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

One problem with blanket rules for everything is that there will always be a situation where the rule harms someone. Parental consent rules are one example. Sure, it’s great when parents are involved in their kids’ care. It’s ideal, even.

That assumes they have good parents, though. When the thing a kid needs protection against is the parent, you can’t demand the parent’s consent for that.

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Sharing – How Perfectionism and Childhood Trauma Are Connected
ByMikeM November 20, 2025November 19, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

As a kid, I needed everything to be perfect, not because I was some overachiever. It was because I knew in my heart and body that anything that wasn’t right could create a violent situation. Any detail overlooked, any warning sign missed, or any wrong word could end up with me getting abused. It became a learned behavior like Pavlov’s dogs. Any mistake created anxiety and fear of repercussion.

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Sharing – Half a million Australians lack access to needed mental health services
ByMikeM November 13, 2025November 13, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

As I’ve said many times, I want to teach people that it’s ok to reach out, which means that I also need to advocate for the resources to be available when someone does!

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Sharing – Why Deprivation May Be More Damaging Than Trauma in Childhood
ByMikeM November 10, 2025November 9, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Why would a kid growing up in poverty, without enough food, and without the social support to succeed in school, feel any different about themselves as they enter adulthood? There’s a connection there; good mental health is hard to find when the entire world tells you you’re less-than.

Maybe we should stop viewing anyone as less-than and fight to make sure no kids go without.

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Sharing – Strange Healing is Still Healing
ByMikeM November 8, 2025November 13, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

My biggest epiphany in therapy was the freedom to make my own life moving forward, because I had never felt I was allowed to do so. Going back to the person I was before I was abused would not have been that.

After all, everyone is changing all the time. Trauma or not, people move forward in their lives and change. Going back isn’t a solution.

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Investing in community is investing in our emotional health
ByMikeM October 31, 2025October 30, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

That’s not the society we’ve been building. You can’t “other” whole groups of people and claim to be building community. You can’t post constant hate and outrage online and claim to be connecting. You can’t build community when people are forced to work 60-80 hours per week or two or three jobs to afford rent. We need a commitment to connecting people and building community with everyone. Our current path will only harm all of us.

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