Teenagers – higher rates of addiction when cannabis is legalised
Teenagers suffer higher rates of addiction when recreational cannabis is legalised – study https://t.co/HvLlCpuAy8 pic.twitter.com/3xmMhiHQv7 — Newshub (@NewshubNZ) November 14, 2019
Secondary victimization of sexual and other assault victims
http://bit.ly/2q0zIVC Men are Strong, aka He Should Have Fought Back: This one is actually quite common. While men are not asked what they were wearing, their physical strength and perceived ability to fight back are frequently used to invalidate. There is a ridiculous assumption that all men have the mad martial arts skills of Bruce…
Emotional demands behind desire to over consume
http://bit.ly/2NMatPU We need to eat. Eating is a survival requirement. It’s how we eat, and why we eat the way we do, that needs to be reviewed. I don’t believe eating is the problem. It’s the emotional demands behind the munchies that cause us to over consume. Other than our hunger signal, if other emotional…
“Peer support”: a “reciprocal process, people with shared experiences support each other’s healing
http://bit.ly/36Rqyeu Since its origins during the late 1980s, the use of peer specialists in traditional mental health agencies has grown tremendously. There are now an estimated 30,000 people with psychiatric histories employed in such positions across the country.1 The term “peer specialist” was coined nearly 30 years ago in a federally funded research and demonstration…
Recovery is possible
http://bit.ly/32x55UMhttp://bit.ly/32x55UMhttp://bit.ly/32x55UM A photo from 2017 shows Valet with pockmarked, scabbed skin and deep, black circles beneath her eyes. The other shows the 25-year-old at her July graduation ceremony for her GED [general education development] diploma, her skin clear and glowing. In a candid interview with the Daily Mail, Valet said her years of drug abuse…
Woman pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a girl and live-streaming it
#ICYMI: A woman pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a girl and live-streaming it over Skype for almost 3 years. One man paid 33-year-old Christine Callaghan £2,285 for her abuse of the victim.https://t.co/PdhAALjPbp pic.twitter.com/ygi2utMnh0 — National Crime Agency (NCA) (@NCA_UK) November 10, 2019
Use Social Media to Cultivate Resilience
Want to boost your well-being while you’re on social media? Try these three tricks. https://t.co/ECv6Azh3jz — Psychology Today (@PsychToday) November 10, 2019 1. Reframe your experience The ability to regulate and manage our emotions crucially affects how we experience negative emotions, and therefore, how resilient we are. One strategy, in particular, has been shown to…
Abuse in Care: 8 Nov witness list and evidence summaries
http://bit.ly/36V0nUq Mike Ledingham Mr Ledingham will give evidence about the abuse he and his two brothers experienced at the hands of a priest while students at St Joseph’s Catholic School in Onehunga (as detailed more fully in the published book “The Catholic Boys”). He will outline the effects of the abuse on him and his…
What’s the difference between an option and a choice, and why is this important?
You have options all over the place. Options don’t really matter that much, but choices do: Am I going to spend time with this person not? If you want to be successful, you don’t have choices. You can’t do whatever you want to do and be good. That’s the hardest thing for millennials and Gen…
I am angry and I own it
"I am angry and I own it." Elizabeth Warren has a message for those attacking her as angry: Yes, she is. "Over and over," she writes, "we are told that women are not allowed to be angry. It makes us unattractive to powerful men who want us to be quiet."https://t.co/eXC1He1Zaq — CNN (@CNN) November 9,…