By AFP
Women who have experienced rape or other abuse have far higher rates of mental disorders and are up to 20 times more likely to attempt suicide than other females, an Australian study showed Wednesday.
The findings, reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, showed a very strong association between exposure to gender-based violence and mental disorder, said study leader
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Thursday, August 4, 2011
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Violence Against Women Can Take Lifelong Toll: Study
By HealthDay
Women who've suffered from gender-based violence are more likely to develop anxiety disorders or other mental woes, experience physical and mental disabilities, and have worse quality of life than other women, new research shows.
Gender-based violence includes rape and other forms of sexual assault, intimate-partner violence (such as spouse abuse) and stalking.
Risks for these
Women who've suffered from gender-based violence are more likely to develop anxiety disorders or other mental woes, experience physical and mental disabilities, and have worse quality of life than other women, new research shows.
Gender-based violence includes rape and other forms of sexual assault, intimate-partner violence (such as spouse abuse) and stalking.
Risks for these
Friday, March 25, 2011
My therapy will start April 1 (hopefully)
I finally got a call back pretty late on Thursday about the domestic violence/rape counseling. An intake appointment was set up for April 1st. Anyone else think it's funny that I'm going to enter the counseling program on April Fools Day?
Well I guess I won't for sure be entering the program. They have to evaluate me to see if they think I'm a "right fit" for the program. I don't know how I
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