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Responding to a passionate believer with whom you strongly disagree I understand. (Then change the topic.) What You Might Say in 8 Ticklish Situations | Psychology TodayContinue Reading
Eight strategies for coping with loneliness 1. Start each day with a 5-minute gratitude practice. Take the time to cultivate a gratitude practice, which is an appreciation of something meaningful to you. 2. Livestream fitness classes. Exercise has tremendous benefits on physical and psychological health by reducing stress and uplifting mood. Participating in zoom classes connects you toContinue Reading
“When I turned 50 I knew I had to turn my life around. “I went to weight management and she mentioned ARCH to me,” she said. After an initial chat with a counsellor, she was added to the waiting list for five or six weeks before her sessions began. “IContinue Reading
The best way to avoid being abused and gaslighted as too sensitive is to limit or end contact with the person or people abusing you. But if you are currently unable to leave an abusive situation, there are strategies that can put you on better footing. Stop explaining yourself. The pathological narcissist thrives onContinue 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
Findings from the four systematic reviews and three meta-analyses identified in this report showed that: Victims of childhood sexual abuse are more likely to develop depressive disorders than are non-victims. There is fair quality evidence that childhood sexual abuse is a likely risk factor for the development ofContinue Reading
Reconnecting via peer support is the core of healing from sexual violence. There is a big difference between solitude and loneliness, loneliness is a negative state, marked by a sense of isolation. One feels that something is missing. It is possible to be with people and still feel lonely – perhapsContinue Reading
