How to Properly Address the Drug Problem in the United States
For decades, drug abuse has been a major concern in the United States. In the 1960s, the primary...
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Category: Abuse Issues
3 Types of Mental Health Abuse and How to Fight Back
It’s easy for people to tell you to just leave an abusive relationship. But they have no idea what...
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Success and Jealousy: Beware The Iagos
Confession time. I’m not a William Shakespeare fan. I’ve always found the man and his works to be...
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Helping Someone Who Has Been Sexually Abused
How Do You Start Helping Someone Who Has Been sexually abused? When someone is sexually abused,...
Read MoreSexual Assault: Lost in the Light, Left in the Dark
I don’t like “trigger warnings” because they imply that our readers can’t handle something. That said, I would like to stress that this is an incredibly intense piece about the difficult subject of sexual assault. I will also...
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Taking Steps to Help Victimized Children and Juvenile Offenders Change Their Lives
In the United States, there were close to 74 million youths (those under 18 years of age) in 2012...
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A Classification of Abusive Behaviors
Abusive conduct is not a uniform, homogeneous phenomenon. It stems and emanates from multiple...
Read MoreDisengaging From Your Family of Origin
“Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother.” But what if your father and mother didn’t honor you? What if instead of loving and honoring you they physically, sexually and emotionally abused you? What if you were scared every day of your...
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Child Abuse Facts: Healing After Sexual Abuse
Have you experienced sexual abuse as a child but you’re not sure whether it was actually sexual...
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Ambient Abuse and Gaslighting
Ambient abuse is the stealth, subtle, underground currents of maltreatment that sometimes go...
Read MoreWhat is Abuse?
Violence in the family often follows other forms of more subtle and long-term abuse: verbal, emotional, psychological sexual, or financial. It is closely correlated with alcoholism, drug consumption, intimate-partner homicide,...
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How to Spot an Abuser on Your First Date
Is there anything you can do to avoid abusers and narcissists to start with? Are there any warning...
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