February Carnival Against Child Abuse
Just noticed that it is up live over at Blessed Fearscapes. As always, looks like there is plenty of food for thought to check out, so please do!
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You’re a Survivor and More
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There’s a New Form of Stigma Around Mental Health and It’s Extremely Dangerous
If you can’t read that, or Twitter starts blocking embeds again – at the mention of a pediatric psychiatric hospital Rep. Cox said “You might want to check that place for grooming”.
Yes, the very mention of providing mental health care for children is met with a suggestion that it is a place for grooming. Because, of course, anyone who encourages kids to talk about their mental health is out to groom them for sexual abuse.
This is a dangerous path that we are on.
