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Headteachers need to stop shaming schoolgirls for having short skirts http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/headteachers-need-to-stop-shaming-schoolgirls-for-having-short-s/ Shared from Google News & Weather One of the challenges facing any school is how to adapt uniforms to contemporary fashion and life. It remains a challenge, but thank goodness progress has been made (otherwise girls would still beContinue Reading

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PTSD can be caused by single event http://citizensvoice.com/news/ptsd-can-be-caused-by-single-event-1.2032083 Shared from Google News & Weather Your friend is astute. Post-traumatic stress disorder is a condition in which distressing symptoms occur after a major trauma. While the media often talk about PTSD in soldiers who have seen active combat, you don’t haveContinue Reading

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Double standard: Female sex offenders can get ‘sweetheart deals’ http://www.sunherald.com/news/local/crime/article72339207.html Shared from Google News & Weather Females make up a minuscule percentage of sexual assault offenders, but many go unreported and unpunished. Just 3 percent of the people listed on the state’s sex offender registry for Northeast Mississippi are females.Continue Reading

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If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one.” This line from the film Spotlight emphasizes the sad fact that when something horrible happens at home, most people don’t want to know about it. And—as psychiatrists—we know too well that those closest toContinue Reading

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Paris attacks: Clinical trial to treat PTSD in terrorism victims begins in France http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/paris-attacks-clinical-trial-treat-ptsd-terrorism-victims-begins-france-1555019 Shared from Google News & Weather Victims of the recent Paris attacks have been offered the opportunity to take part in a clinical trial, aimed at treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The study will be conductedContinue Reading

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Meet a Former Soldier Who Overcame His Life-Threatening PTSD With MDMA-Therapy http://thescienceexplorer.com/brain-and-body/meet-former-soldier-who-overcame-his-life-threatening-ptsd-mdma-therapy Shared from Google News & Weather “One of my biggest reservations was I had never used MDMA before in my life,” Lubecky told me in a phone interview. “I had no idea what to expect.” Lubecky called upContinue Reading

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Survivors share stories, solidarity during annual Sexual Assault Awareness Month event http://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/2016/04/13/survivors-share-stories-solidarity-during-annual-sexual-assault-awareness-month-event/83010864/ Shared from Google News & Weather Men wobbled in high heeled shoes as they lined up to walk along Northeast Drive on the University of Louisiana at Monroe campus on Wednesday. They were participants in Walk a MileContinue Reading