“I get it. I get why you constantly scare people. Fear gets higher ratings than brilliance. But I am wondering, have you thought about the ramifications of portraying people with mental illness as evil, scary monsters who commit heinous crimes? Of telling only one story about mental illness? Of perpetuating the harmful stigma and then…
“For months, Erin Hagerty tried to get the young boy to open up about his traumatic past. Instead, he spent entire sessions avoiding eye contact, staring at the wall and refusing to speak. But Hagerty, a clinical psychologist with the Advocate Childhood Trauma Treatment Program didn’t give up on the child, who had been abandoned…
It’s the 10th-leading cause of death, but you’ll almost never see it mentioned in an obituary. It kills as many people as breast cancer nationally, but it’s not recognizable by a ribbon or race. In Ohio, it claims a life every seven hours. Experts say this is 100 percent preventable. We can stop these deaths….
In the interest of sharing reviews of books/movies/shows about mental health and child abuse, I wanted to link to a review of Healing from Incest: Intimate Conversations with My Therapist posted by Megan Riddle over on Psych Central. Megan even rates it “Worth your Time”. If you’ve read it, do you agree? As always, if…
“1. You probably see a specialist for everything else — mental health should be no different. If you have a toothache, you see a dentist. If your vision is blurry, you see the optometrist. If you have a cold, you see your primary doctor. If you’re having mental struggles, why not see a therapist? It’s their…
“Young kids make decisions based on a set of rules they construct about the world around them – don’t draw on the walls, don’t spit your food, do eat your vegetables. As teenagers, we stop making decisions based on constructed rules and start independently weighing the risks and rewards of different options, but with a…
