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Sharing – The impact of non-recent child sexual abuse on the wider family
ByMikeM July 12, 2025July 12, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

As I’ve mentioned before, I didn’t wait until my 40s or 50s to tell someone about my abuse, and my family found out about it in my 20s, primarily due to my roommate having to answer their questions about my mental health breakdown. I didn’t get to choose whether my parents found out, but I’m also thankful that he went ahead and had that difficult conversation with them. I needed them to know what happened so that they could be part of my life while I tried to heal my mental health.

On the other hand, I would be lying if I said everything in the family was great after that. It’s complicated and occasionally messy.

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Sharing – Invest in childhood
ByMikeM June 21, 2025June 20, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

We know that kids who can access mental health support during traumatic childhoods fare significantly better in every aspect than kids who are unable to do so. If we want to do something about not only the youth mental health crisis, but also future adult mental and physical health issues, one of the best things we could do is invest in support systems for children.

But, we don’t. We have never made the kind of commitment that is necessary, and now we are cutting the meager programs that do exist.

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Shared Links (weekly) June 15. 2025
ByMikeM June 15, 2025June 14, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

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Sharing – How to Really Make America Great: By Confronting the Forbidden Issues
ByMikeM June 14, 2025June 14, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

Again, I’ll say it. You can’t solve the problems that exist and create risks for traumatized children when you don’t acknowledge the trauma. How can someone dealing with discrimination, hate, poverty, etc., get assistance when we won’t recognize that those things exist?

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Sharing – Current mental health support systems often fail to meet men’s needs.
ByMikeM June 12, 2025June 11, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

In the mental health field, I would agree with the experts quoted in the article. We treat mental health and trauma recovery based on the symptoms shown most often by women, because it is most often women who are seeking help. We define the symptoms based on what we see in those women, which are not the symptoms that every woman would have, let alone others. Someone who is abusing a substance, dealing with anger, taking risks, etc., isn’t typically what we consider “depressed,” but that might be the reality.

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Sharing – Psychological Abuse Explained
ByMikeM May 29, 2025May 28, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

This logic that emotional and psychological abuse isn’t “as bad” gives short shrift to the people who’ve been psychologically abused. We also don’t recognize the emotional and psychological abuse that went on alongside the other forms of abuse in our situations. That can limit us when it comes to healing. We can’t heal what we don’t know. If we ignore the impacts of these other forms of abuse, we run the risk of dealing with the effects for the rest of our lives instead of taking them on in our healing work.

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