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?
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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…
I got an email from Lindsay with Zingerplatz Pictures about a screening of Hand Of God a film by Joe Cultrera. In his own words: The film centers on my brother’s abuse by a Catholic priest (Joseph Birmingham) in 1964, back in our hometown of Salem. The film goes on to tell the story of…
One of the posts I’ve been looking at quite a bit from the last Carnival Against Child Abuse is this guest post by Stephanie Gagos about self-esteem. One of the ideas that strikes me, especially given the time of the year is the idea towards the end of balancing accepting yourself while also striving to…
I was reminded this evening about a site that an online friend of mine had put up to help tell his story and support other abuse survivors. I hadn’t been there in a while and it was nice to see the forum and everything else still going strong. You can take a look at it…
It’s up over at Cerebralmum’s. With this being the month of Thanksgiving, she gave it a Gratitude Theme. Looks like there’s some good reading over there, and since I’m trying to rid myself of this cold, I think I’ll spend some time reading through it! Technorati Tags: CarnivalAgainstchildAbuse, BlogCarnival, Gratitude
Things I needed to learn before I could be “healthy” Part 2: 90-95% of the things that go on in the world are completely beyond my control. Spending a lot of emotional energy worrying about them is a waste because none of that energy is going to change the outcomes of those things, but it…
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