Facts About Mental Health & Physical and Sexual Abuses
50% to 70% of women hospitalized for psychiatric reasons have experienced physical or sexual abuse. (Briere and Runtz, 1990) More
Forced Treatment Doesn’t Work
Whenever there is violence involving someone with an apparent mental illness, there is a stepped-up demand for forced treatment of
Self-Determination
I really started to learn about self-determination when I went into an institution when I was five years old. I
Mental illness is a coping mechanism
Mental illness is a coping mechanism. We know for sure that victims of horrendous childhood sexual abuse, most often by
Anna’s story: The effects of sexual abuse, the system’s failure to respond and the emergence of a new, trauma-based paradigm
From the age of 13 to her recent death at the age of 32, my daughter Anna was
Coping with the Tragedy
The following article was included in an e- newsletter from the Mental Health Association in North Carolina North Carolina is