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Monday, May 18, 2009

EZ Reads 5/18/09: Mental Illness

  • An interesting piece in the Forward on the battle against eating disorders and the like in the Orthodox Jewish community, talking a little about Renfrew and the OU-sponsored upcoming day-long conference featuring their documentary "Hungry to be Heard".
  • A father calls for his son's suicide to be an appeal for awareness regarding mental illnesses.
  • An xckd titled "Helping" that serves as a good reminder to help people find professional help:

12 comments:

  1. it really is creepy. and real. did you know that hamodia started a new column on mental illness last week?

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  2. and real....yes.

    did you know that hamodia started a new column on mental illness last week?No, I did not. Was it good?

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  3. i don't remember, and now i can't find it. it was in the magazine, the first segment was on myths. i didn't really read it all that well, cuz i only do "leisure reading" on shabbos, and that wasn't leisure...

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  4. S'ok... I'll see if I can find it. Thanks!

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  5. i was a little upset by the lack of mention about sexual abuse in the article, although not surprised. and i shouldn't have been upset either, i'm just obsessed...

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  6. Unfortunately, there is still a very strong stigma (similar to the one a commenter expressed on your blog recently about an excellent unprinted letter) that anything to do with sex is not fit for public consumption - even sexual abuse, which needs to be taught to protect people. :(

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  7. you're telling me?? even the word "abuse" without "sexual" before it is still rarely mentioned, and when it is, it's all hush-hush, it doesn't happen here, only non-frum and all that garbage!

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  8. Sigh...so true. But still hard.

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  9. But still hard..

    Especially if you KNOW you can't help someone who keeps looking to you for help anyway.

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  10. http://www.hamodia.com/mainstory.cfm (for next few days at least)

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