Recently, I have seen too many studies to link here, talking about how the effects of child abuse are being confused for ADHD, or lead to a variety of mental health issues, or even physical health issues. Just today, I saw this quote in an article about a male support group in Canada: Many of…
(ed note – As Stan and Lacey have both pointed out in the comments, I am not referring to the actual ancient idea of karma when I talk about karma here, but the more common use of the word in modern society, which seems to be based more on the idea of instant karma, where…
If what I do sounds descriptive of how you live your own online life, than let me challenge you. Find a post that resonates with you, on either blog, and share it with your network. Or, share this post with a personal note about how child abuse, or mental illness, has touched your life with your network. Not just with the folks you already interact with about these topics, but outside of that.
And then continue to look for ways to reach beyond the bubble of the online survivor community. Because there are survivors and people dealing with mental health problems all around us, and there are also those who remain uneducated about those topics all around us as well.
As we know now, Subway spokesperson Jared Fogle is going to plead guilty to a plethora of charges involving child pornography and sexual crimes against minors. I don’t want to spend a lot of time talking about him, there’s been enough written about the case itself, but I was reminded of something earlier today that…
In my reading this week, I came across an article that discussed the dangers of telling ourselves only one story about ourselves. The article wasn’t specifically about abuse survivors, but it is something I have found to be very accurate. What he meant was that people get too attached to the stories they tell about…
Read that again. “Everybody assumes that other people are far more observant than they really are”
Now think about how much time we spend worrying about how we appear to other people, who are not as observant as we think they are.
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