Yes, it’s true. According to research done University of Nottingham, hearing recovery narratives can be helpful to people dealing with mental health issues: So, from the perspective of a person facing mental health problems, does it help to have access to other people’s recovery stories? A new systematic review conducted by researchers from the University…
This has been my experience, and from talking to many other survivors over the years, I know it’s fairly common. “A PTSD sufferer can have trauma memories that are alarmingly vivid and, at the same time, infuriatingly vague. Or, in some cases, there is total amnesia. This paradox has been at the heart of the…
It’s important to note that we cannot know for sure that there is a causal relationship between these two events, and the NIMH admits that as well, but that is in part due to the fact that we never really know what causes any individual case of suicide. What we do know, though, is that…
I found this section of the article below to be especially important for survivors to know. “The secret of child sexual abuse is especially shaming. It can make you feel like there is something seriously wrong with you; that you are inferior or worthless. You want to hide for fear of your secret being exposed….
Continuing on a theme I’ve been discussing a lot around here. Darius wrote a really interesting article on how dissociation, something many of us did as children to protect our minds during the abuse, can be quite damaging when we remain disconnected from ourselves and our emotions as adults. “This lack of self-connection creates a…
One of the easiest ways to dismiss a survivor is to openly wonder “why it took so long to come forward”, without any understanding that coming forward is the exception, not the norm. Many, many victims never come forward at all, and most who do come forward do so well after the fact. That’s normal, not immediately rushing to tell someone.
