Know It Will Pass I can do anything for a minute. Most things for an hour. A considerable amount for a day or two or three. Most of my intrusive thoughts—the intense phase, anyway—have a life span of two or three days. I find the obsessions much more manageable whenContinue Reading
Group membership was 82.5% female, as were 80% of the Administrators and Moderators, all of whom are lay volunteers. The role of Facebook groups in the management and raising of awareness of antidepressant withdrawal: is social media filling the void left by health services? – Edward White, John Read, SherryContinue Reading
The lower your self esteem, the more that you will feel that you have to tell others what you are doing. You must work on how you feel about yourself then until you realize that you are a free adult and you are beholden to no one. When you haveContinue Reading
Dana C. Branson (from 2019) notes that vicarious trauma (VT) is often used to refer to the “unique, negative, and accumulative changes” that may impact clinicians engaged in empathetic client relationships. Branson notes that within this context, characteristics and physical symptoms may include unwelcome thoughts or imagery induced by clientContinue Reading
Writer Anna Brech talks about the “joy of autonomy.” According to Brech, “the feeling that your life is self-chosen – is the number one contributor to happiness.” Therefore, one who is unmarried can continuously engage in activities that they get to choose, and build up that feeling that their life is “self-chosen.”Continue Reading
Our results suggest that the more social pressure a man feels to be masculine, the more aggressive he may be,” said Adam Stanaland, a Ph.D. candidate in psychology and public policy at Duke and the study’s lead author. “When those men feel they are not living up to strict genderContinue Reading
Signs of grooming and child sexual exploitation going missing for periods of time or regularly returning home late skipping school or being disruptive in class appearing with unexplained gifts or possessions that can’t be accounted for experiencing health problems that may indicate a sexually transmitted infection having mood swings and changesContinue Reading
Signs of a One Sided Relationship You’re frequently apologizing for things. It feels effortful to engage your partner in a conversation (especially tough ones). You hide things about your relationship with others—or you divulge too much about your relationship with others, instead of discussing issues with your partner directly. You make excusesContinue Reading
Male survivors of sexual abuse often experience sudden and unpredictable behaviour. Psychotic-like symptoms. Paranoia, hallucinations or brief psychotic episodes are not uncommon for survivors of child sexual abuse. Mood fluctuations, anger and irritability. Children are often unable to verbalize their feelings so instead, they act out on them. Sometimes, theContinue Reading
survivors able to find strong corroboration of their recovered memories Participants reporting any type of childhood abuse demonstrated elevated levels of dissociative symptoms that were significantly higher than those in subjects not reporting abuse. Higher dissociative symptoms were correlated with early age at onset of physical and sexual abuse andContinue Reading
