Introduction to Tanya J. Peterson, Author of ‘Mental Health for the Digital Generation’
Toxic Childhood? 10 Lessons You Must Unlearn in Adulthood
Five tips to keep your children safe online
How To Be Intentional With Social Media Use
Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
Here’s What Happens When Social Workers, Not Police, Respond To Mental Health Crises
Former Gymnast Sarah Klein Discusses Coach John Geddert’s Sex Abuse Charges
Look, I get it, you tried something and it helped you, or you’ve seen it help someone else. Clearly, you are excited about the possibility of helping others, but you’re forgetting something. You’re forgetting that the person you are sharing this advice with, isn’t you.
When you come walking into a conversation with friends, or especially into online communities with statements like the ones above, the message you are actually sending is “Gee, fixing this is easy, you’re just doing it wrong”.
Imagine using those actual words towards someone you barely know. You wouldn’t, would you? At least if you’re a decent human being, you wouldn’t. But you are totally willing to take your beliefs, your own experience, and completely railroad another person’s current reality with it, you are doing something awfully similar. In a moment of emotional vulnerability, you have come in, guns blazing, with the suggestion that all of this pain they are in, and all of this struggling they are going through, should have been easy to avoid.
We know from previous posts that there are places in the US and Canada, where there simply aren’t any mental health resources. Rural areas show up in that list often, so I am glad to share this resource:
As I have written before, being an advocate online for me means writing, sharing information and insights, interacting with other survivors, etc. but sometimes I just can’t. Not because I’ve lost interest or don’t want to do it, but because I’m just tired of the pushback. I’m tired of having stories about male victims challenged or dismissed, tired of people in the mental health space telling me that everyone should just do what worked for them, tired of dealing with other people’s definitions of what healing looks like, or how long it should take, and on and on.
It’s all stigma, it’s all the stigma that I want to fight against, but some days it’s just exhausting. So I’d rather not talk about it.
This is some really interesting stuff from Jim Hopper. We know that “fight or flight” doesn’t truly represent the common reactions to being assaulted, So rather than trying to add new terms, why not just rethink the entire thing?
The Many Impacts of Self-Stigma
New Study Explores How Trauma-Focused Psychotherapy Works
Emergency Rooms See Significant Rise in Mental Health Visits During Pandemic
The Shame No One Talks About In Sexual Abuse
KTLA reporter Gene Kang shares experience overcoming child abuse, domestic violence
How I overcame my dad abusing me and loaning me out for sex at a ‘paedophile brothel’
Subtle Childhood Trauma Symptoms You’re Ignoring
