Mike Jay wrote this profile of Geel, a small town in Belgium whose residents have taken in people with who are disabled or who have mental illness....for more than 700 years. The townspeople call these people guests or boarders. Thanks to...
Many individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) also experience depression. Researchers at Case Western Reserve University found that during PTSD treatments, rapid improvements in depression symptoms are associated with better outcomes....
In his NYTimes Fixes column, David Bornstein noted: " Homelessness is an extremely adverse childhood experience." He included that observation in a must-read overview of how cities are dealing with homelessness. He used a heartbreaking series --...
Suze Clemitson wrote this fascinating look at elite cyclists and depression -- cyclists call it "riding with the black dog" - - for 100 Tours 100 Tales , part of the Guardian Sports Network. There is strong evidence that certain forms...
The Private Violence project tackles the myths and misconceptions about domestic violence that make the world a dangerous place for one in four women and their families. Thirty-five years into the battered women's movement, it's time to start asking...
Amy Goodman from Democracy Now! interviewed Cynthia Hill, director of "Private Violence", an HBO documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this week, and Kit Gruelle, who's featured in the film. You can watch the interview, along with...
Ryan Beck Turner, associate director of advocacy for the Human Trafficking Center , wrote this for journalists, but it's useful for people who read stories about human trafficking, too. Here's the first part of his essay, and one of the five...
Cynthia L. Cooper wrote this story about the continuing bad news from family courts for WomensEnews.org. At the same time that Colorado opened its doors to the legal sale of marijuana on Jan. 1 and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed loosening...
One of my first memories was being awaken by the car horn before the crack of dawn. I remember slowly making my way down the hallway to the stairs and cautiously beginning my descent as my mother, unaware that she was being followed, opened...
Recent research on resilient adults has shown that their health fares poorly despite their upward mobility. I write about this in light of a conversation I had with a Camden high school student and the resiliency project I am developing. ...
These are two very well explanations. The first link http://gobbelcounseling.wordpress.com/2013/06/13/trauma-doesnt-tell-time/ gives good explanation how some information in our brains is recalled (what most of us call memory) while other information...
Four ACEs Is Not A Winning Hand! Sure, you can sit at a poker table and get pretty excited if you’re holding 4 aces. You’d probably bet a lot of money on what you think is a winning hand. If you did win, you’d be telling everyone you...
Greetings! At the risk of coming off overly dramatic, I honestly believe that the more signatures (of U.S. citizens) that we can get on this petition, the better off human kind will be. Okay, maybe not by huge margins, but, a little bit. And a little...
Douglas County Georgia Juvenile Court Judge Peggy Walker is an activist judge for the children of her state – the children she loves who do not get what they need for healthy, successful lives. She sees how the children are failed when...