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Sharing – 10 Signs You’re Healing From Childhood Trauma
The act of going from being silent and ashamed of your trauma to talking about it without shame is not something that just happens. It takes time, and it’s a step-by-step process. You won’t one day get out of bed ready to address 1,000 people and tell your story. You’ll find one person you feel safe enough with to share your story, probably shaking with nerves. You’ll be afraid of how they will react, you might even feel a little ashamed but you’re starting to realize that the shame shouldn’t be yours.
That’s a victory. That’s a step in the healing direction. Celebrate it instead of kicking yourself for not being ready to speak to a large audience. You can’t get there without these intermediate steps. So see them as signs of healing.
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Shared Links (weekly) Aug. 7, 2022
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‘When it comes to mental health, all countries are developing countries’
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Supporting a Family Member with Serious Mental Illness Is Harder Than It Should Be
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Books Under Review: Summer 2022 – “Reviews of five recent books reflecting various perspectives on the mental health system.”
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Sharing – How Does Trauma Affect the Brain?
Read the whole thing. It’s important. Children amid trauma focus on surviving. Their brains focus on surviving and not development. They then grow up to be adults without a chance to develop fully.
The fix is to get kids with resources to help them develop as early as possible. (And to also get them removed from the things causing so much trauma.) The longer this goes on without any treatment, the more damage is done.
We may not be able to prevent every kind of childhood trauma, but we need to understand the impacts and how to treat them. Otherwise, we are simply leaving too many people behind.
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Sharing – Sending Out an SOS: Help Combat Childhood Trauma
We don’t see it because we don’t talk about it enough. We don’t talk about it enough because it’s an uncomfortable topic. It’s not “fun” to talk about childhood trauma, even though almost everyone experiences it directly or indirectly. Everyone knows people who have lived through childhood trauma or are currently living with it. They just don’t talk about it or know what to do. And since we don’t talk about it, solving it doesn’t become much of a priority.
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Shared Links (weekly) July 17, 2022
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What to Say, and Not to Say, to Someone Who’s Grieving – We don’t deal with grief well, we haven’t learned how to handle it for ourselves, let alone someone else. It’s time to learn.
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Researchers surprised to find seven adult health conditions linked to childhood abuse
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Taking a mental health day can be good for you – here’s how to make the most of one
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Call 988: New suicide hotline can help as mental health crisis worsens
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R. Kelly Sentencing: Being Abused Is Not an Excuse to Abuse Others
