According to this Psychology Today article people who regularly get migraines are more likely to suffer from major depression than people who don’t. I suffered from major depression for a long time and have had migraines for as long as I can remember. But I don’t think the migraines caused the depression, the child abuse caused the depression, but maybe it caused the migraines too, since they are biologically related?
Link pulled from Nutz’so
Not about child abuse, but an interesting read from Robert Scoble about how the internet is helping him through hard times. Mostly I wanted to share my email to Robert earlier today: Robert, I just read your blog entry from last night and wanted to drop you a line. Not to offer condolances or anything…
I’m sitting in my office crying. Thankfully the door’s shut and there’s no one standing outside knocking at the moment, because if they were, they’d have to figure out just why the hell I’m sitting in my office with tears rolling down my face and I don’t think I could even tell them. This is…
I was slightly bemused when I saw that Tracie had made change the theme of September’s Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse. Why, you ask? Because I had been thinking quite a bit about the topic of late. It’s been almost 6 months since I packed what I could fit in my car, and drove from…
Maybe, just maybe, things are starting to get back to normal around here. After a couple of huge projects that had me working much more than my 40 hours per week, and taking up pretty much all of my mental energy, which ended just in time for the annual ILTA conference, where I was not…
Today I saw a blog post by a friend of mine that had nothing to do with child abuse or survivors, but one which I really felt the lessons most definitely applied when it comes to healing. On the blog, Red Boot Lady is talking about the lessons learned from a recent experience meeting another…
