01/17/2017
Friends,if you listen in to any of our broadcasts - PLEASE LISTEN IN ON THIS ONE!!! Set your reminder for 4pm central time today!!! Call in to speak with me live at 929-477-2779, join in the chatroom, invited your friends, pass this forward.
Way too often, in fact most cases, of violence or sexual trauma are never discussed, especially those cases from ten or twenty years ago. However, what we are actually doing by not discussing the topic is leaving millions of victims to find their own self destructive coping strategies.
Think of it in these terms; it is only with the last five years that our returning Veterans have been able to get support, medication, and coping groups provided for what being in a battle has done to their safe perception of life. However, there are a reported 3.7+ million maltreatments against children every year. It's a battle that young, under-developed children, who are overlooked by the system, their neighbors, family friends, even their schools and their medical providers (given they are provided with any care at all). All of these connecting limbs look away, stay out of the business within the home, and most are so accustomed to seeing direct violence or having been sexual abuse victims that they figure the child will get over it. THEY DO NOT!!
They bury their emotions about it because they are the ones who have to survive in that home; doing whatever it takes in hopes of ending the maltreatment or harm and simply be loved like they view many of their friends and classmates to be with their families. For whatever reason, regardless of how much suffering (possibly ten or more years before they finally get old enough to get away. They don't have weapons, they are not big enough to fight back. They also may not even understand how they are being manipulated to be used and shamed as they are. When they become adults most (8 of 10) have lasting ramifications. Perhaps some are so extreme they either develope a criminal history, violent crimes against others, suffer severe depression, bipolar, dissociation, drug addictions, or maybe they commit crimes against the children around them because they are angry, broken, don't fully comprehend the dangers of their actions.
The Department of Health & Human Services has begun developing what they title Peer Specialist Programs. They provide volunteer or assigned services to groups of persons with mental illness as a Peer Mentor, much like what myself and many others do on our time everyday. This particular show we are going to explain the Peer Program, the mental impact of a life lived in brutal violence or repeated sexual attacks. We are discussing the lack of real help, speaking with a psychiatrist, going into therapy, providing regulated visits and support care to help the many parents and victims today find the resources of help that can truly give them hope for something better.
You have to want to get help before you will find a way to rebuild the learned behaviors but myself and hundreds of others I know and speak with personally have done just that and we have found that path to feel happy again. Reclaim your own destiny, get yourself or someone else the help and support they need; the alternative is much worse and leaves an entire wounded society without the support system and balance of love & life which every human being deserves.
Together every community has the resources and the help to prevent this path of destruction and provide a better, safer world for all of our society; especially for our children and the wounded souls of times gone by. Thanks & hope to have you with us today!!!
Topics with Trish - Host Trish McKnight is passionate about equality and justice. She has attended countless trainings to gain a trusted voice as an Advocate/Activist focused on Injustice, Addiction & Family Recovery. She is actively aiding families, victims, and survivors from all walks of life. Ce...
