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Gala benefits Rainbow House on St. Croix --
Road Town :: British Virgin Islands | about 5 hours ago
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Croix celebrated the second birthday of the Rainbow House with a dance party and a fundraiser at the Walsh Metal Works on St...Croix is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to help the homeless, mentally ill and substance addicted on the island and...
Tags: Rainbow House, thousand helpers, Judy Bain, mental illness, Walsh Metal Works, St. Croix, British Virgin Islands, Road Town, Bipolar disorder, Identity, Stigma, Hovensa, Social stigma, Sociology, Mental health, Discrimination, Social Issues
Campaign for Disabled starts
Mumbai :: India | 5 days ago
Credibility The campaign was started from October 17 and ended today which mainly focus on disable persons to live on their own in flavor and overcome stigma and discrimination which they have been facing by birth. The closing function was attended by N Raghumani,...
Tags: disabled persons, HD Foundation, N Raghumani, India, Mumbai, Identity, Sociology, Stigma, Imphal, Bishnupur district, Manipur, Bias, Discrimination, Social Issues
Hands-on sex education of Spain
Sex is a dirty word and, sex education that believes in imparting hands-on training to achieve self gratification could be a solution to innumerable problems. ‘Pleasure is in your own hands’ is the slogan coined by the Government of Spain....
Tags: sex education, self gratification, suicide, murders, society, stigma, pre-teen mothers, unwed mothers, humanitarian, Madrid, Social Issues, Education, Spain
Germany must act on taboos after Enke death: soccer chief
Hanover :: Germany | 11 days ago
Credibility German football must remove the stigma of depression and homosexuality after the death of goalkeeper Robert Enke, the country's soccer chief said on Friday. Germany and Hanover 96 keeper Enke, 32, who had suffered from depression since 2003, committed...
Tags: Robert Enke, Germany, Hanover, Taboo, Stigma, Theo Zwanziger, German Football Association, Social Issues, allnews, Human Interest, Hannover 96, Major depressive disorder, Oliver Bierhoff, Germany national football B team, Sebastian Deisler, Widow, Suicide, Abnormal psychology, Mood disorders
112-year old man marries a 17-year old girl
The 112 years old man waited for the 17 year old girl to grow up before proposing to her – they are from the same village in Somalia. She is his sixth wife and he already has 18 children from his five earlier wives. The marriage was a huge success...
Tags: deathbed, stigma, spinster, antarjali jatra
life
until recently i have been dealing with social anxieties and insomnia, which have kept me from doing my best at school, or even leaving my house. Class, after class, months then years. It grew out of proportion. All that time, i had to deal with...
Tags: insomnia, assumptions, stigma
Schizophrenia, no social stigma.
Curiosity kills the cat. Thus, to me it’s always better to kill the curiosity itself than getting killed as a cat. For that, I would rather be a dog to sniff around. So that, eventually, I can sneak into the truth. Even, if it’s buried under...
Tags: schizophrenia, schizophrenic, paranoia, catatonia, nymphomania, avolition, alogia, asociality, social, stigma, genetic, medication, medicines, clinical, drug, dope, alcohol
Surviving as a Single Mother
Titania Veda, Jakarta Globe, 21 April 2009 Marriage is the norm in Indonesia, and most people desire a happy, well-balanced family in which to raise children. Reality, however, can be a good deal more complicated, as can be seen from an increasing...
Tags: single, mothers, mom, women, female, headed, household, stigma, social, polygamy, Indonesia, Jakarta, Karawang, East Java, surviving, poor, children, poverty, divorcee, widow, wife, husband, grandmother
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