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But probably the worst was I suspected that a woman was innocent of abuse that was being claimed by her grown daughter.
She accused her mother of sexual abuse based on a repressed memory.
To understand PTSD, we first need to understand how the brain processes a wide range of ordeals, including the death of a loved one, domestic violence, injury or illness, abuse, rape, war, car accidents, and natural disasters.
There's no law that's been passed specifically authorizing this technique, and because of its power and potential for abuse, it's vital that we have an informed public debate.
["Yo bitch"] If you saw a Tweet that only said this, you might think to yourself, "That looks like abuse."
They also increase the risk of substance abuse, homelessness, heart disease, Alzheimer's, suicide.
Others come from the underbelly of society, never given a chance to mobilize upwards: foster care dropouts, teenage runaways escaping abuse and unforgiving homes.
"Smack" can mean "kiss" as in air kisses, as in lip-smacking, but that can lead to "smack" as in "hit" as in domestic abuse, because sexual attraction can seem threatening.
They've uncovered corruption, abuse.
In six months, we'll have finished three years of testing the makerspace kiosk, which I have to admit, we've subjected to some pretty horrific abuse.
Facebook has had a tool for a long time that allowed people to report photos that may be in violation of our community standards, things like spam and abuse.
So anyway, there are lots of these photos being erroneously reported as spam and abuse, and one of the engineers on the team had a hunch.
So I find this hypothetical photo of myself, and it's not spam, it's not abuse, but I really wish it weren't on the site.
They are paid less than men for the same work if they're paid at all, and they remain vulnerable because they have no economic independence, and they are constantly threatened by exploitation, violence and abuse.
They are huge paintings of torture and abuse of power, in the voluminous Botero style.
I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
There are some techies out there who believe that the cure-all for any power imbalance or power abuse is simply more data, more transparency.
I can talk to you over it without worrying about what we in fact now know is happening, without worrying about the fact that not only will surveillance be happening but it'll be done by people who may abuse the data.
Or, is animal mental illness just a result of mistreatment or abuse?
They didn't change their content, they kept tweeting the same as usual, but suddenly, the white guys noticed they were getting called the n-word all the time and they were getting the worst kind of online abuse, whereas the black women all of a sudden noticed things got a lot more pleasant for them.
Leave them abandoned, and they risk exploitation and abuse, and leave them unskilled and uneducated, and delay by years the return to peace and prosperity in their countries.
Ask why so many countries criminalize drugs they'd never heard of, why the U.N. drug treaties emphasize criminalization over health, even why most of the money worldwide for dealing with drug abuse goes not to helping agencies but those that punish, and you'll find the good old U.S. of A. Why did we do this?
Look at Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, England, where people who have been addicted to heroin for many years and repeatedly tried to quit and failed can get pharmaceutical heroin and helping services in medical clinics, and the results are in: Illegal drug abuse and disease and overdoses and crime and arrests all go down, health and well-being improve, taxpayers benefit, and many drug users even put their addictions behind them.
Using automatic weapons to slaughter uncontacted peoples is the single most despicable and disgusting human rights abuse on our planet today, and it has to stop.
And you have to respond to a report of child abuse.
A case worker responds to a report of child abuse.
FGM is child abuse.
Culture should not be a defense for child abuse.
I am talking about threats that are so severe or pervasive that they literally get under our skin and change our physiology: things like abuse or neglect, or growing up with a parent who struggles with mental illness or substance dependence.
Those include physical, emotional, or sexual abuse; physical or emotional neglect; parental mental illness, substance dependence, incarceration; parental separation or divorce; or domestic violence.
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