Sexually molested by older brother. Should I tell to my family? (176)

163 Name: !sPlbhUFiI2 : 2015-10-27 22:23 ID:Heaven

Hello!

I just wanted to send a quick follow-up to see if you received my e-mail below, sent on the 21st. If you could take a moment to have a look it would be greatly appreciated.

We discovered your site http://4-ch.net/personal/kareha.pl/1178136011/ and your link to http://www.apa.org/ during our research of available online information on mental health geared toward non-professionals. I thought that you may be interested in an additional quality resource, one which addresses the strong and very important relationship between substance abuse, addiction, and mental health disorders.

According to the AMA, approximately 50% of individuals with a ‘serious’ mental illness have problems with substance abuse. A significantly greater percentage of individuals with substance dependency have reported a ‘co-occurring disorder’ of some severity - most commonly depression and anxiety. As many treatment professionals know, treatment must address this strong relationship of ailments in order to be effective.

Information for non-professionals, however, is severely lacking on the web. Many websites leave out critical or new research, fail to make information comprehensible and even refer to co-occurring disorders as ‘Dual Diagnosis’ – terminology from an outdated version of the DSM. This is why I’m reaching out to recommend a new resource that is a comprehensive aggregation of current research in an easy-to-follow format. I believe you will find this page to be the best available on the web for its topic:

http://americanaddictioncenters.org/co-occurring-disorders/

I hope that you will consider this addition for placement somewhere on your site - and thank you so much for your time. If you have the chance, please let me know what we could do to help reach people with key resources such as these. If you are not responsible for modifications to this page, would not like to be contacted or are not the correct contact, I would greatly appreciate it if you could point me in the right direction.

Thank you!

Ashley Knowles
Outreach Manager
AdvocatesForHealth.org
outreach@advocatesforhealth.org
PO Box 3204 - Santa Monica, CA 90408

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