Month: November 2020

The Stigma Surrounding Arab Sexual Assault Victims

Trigger warning: this article discusses sexual assault and abuse. We live in a world that does not like to admit that it is at fault. So, it is no surprise that the world we live in does not like to talk about sexual assault. Sexual assault is immensely under-reported to authorities, victims are constantly blamed …

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The Misconceptions of OCD

Stigma / By aware.ae

Trigger warning: this article discusses OCD as a mental disorder. Obsessive compulsive disorder is very often misunderstood to be of only one type. The truth is that OCD has many different categories that are manifested in many different ways. The thing those categories have in common is that the person experiencing such manifestations is caught in …

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