For all the good she has done with taking her message pulbic and using her celebrity to spread the message of all survivors, I’m glad she is also speaking out about this issue. “The last few months I wasn’t putting myself first at all,” she told the magazine. “I was so obsessed with trying to…
I’d agree with this quote – “They are people who were on the edge of death and then go on and continue living,” she said. “I find that very hopeful.” Stories are powerful, stories of people who’ve been in the worst places that you and I know of, and lived through it, are incredible. https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Wellness/life-attempting-suicide-survivors/story?id=55841545
I’m not going to quote anything from this article, because it’s a complicated issue that doesn’t break down into sound bites very well. We all want the justice system to come down hard on anyone who is guilty of abusing a child, but proving that guilt is tricky when it requires, potentially, doing more harm…
It’s true. We don’t see a lot of memoirs being written by adults who were neglected, and outside of some really atrocious cases, we rarely see the details of childhood neglect splashed across the front page, but these stories happen all of the time – “Jordan’s teacher knows she should be more sympathetic. She admits…
It seems like the internet gets a pretty bad rap, but sometimes it helps to remember how much good can come from access to the proper information – My recovery from mental illness started on the Internet. I knew I had an eating disorder before I was diagnosed. But before I took that giant leap…
This is such an important caveat. Depression Support Groups are Helpful When They’re Good I attended a support group for abuse survivors for a short time, and it was a very bad experience for me. (I won’t get into details here, but mixing in one male survivor with a group of female survivors who had…
