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Kavanaugh hearings in D.C. prompt safe space at home
WHBF-TV ^ | October 2, 2018 | Tahera Rahman

Posted on 10/02/2018 9:15:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

DAVENPORT, Iowa - Controversial testimony at the nation's capitol is getting some reaction here at home.

A local mental health counselor says she's seen the impact of the hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

Miriam Prichard says it took an emotional toll on her and some of her patients.

She says hearing the testimony from survivors can be traumatizing for other survivors.

Prichard teamed up with a Davenport church so people could reflect in a quiet space.

"What I've seen from survivors this past week is that people are just tired because they hear these stories and they hear people doubting Dr. Blasey Ford's story, they feel like they're being doubted all over again," Prichard says.

She says social media can also make it even more difficult to disconnect from tough topics.

"You want to stay informed because it's an important issue and you also want to protect yourself. And I think too many times, we go overboard with the being informed part and I think it's important to step back and say, 'Okay, if I watch one more interview or read one more post about this, is that really going to help me?" says Prichard.

Prichard says she plans to hold more safe space events this year.

That includes the day of the confirmation vote as well as the day after elections.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: abuse; iowa; kavanaugh; mentalhealth; psychology
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So Miriam just assumes that Judge Kavanaugh is guilty? Or am I reading too much into it.
1 posted on 10/02/2018 9:15:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Drama Queens Unite!


2 posted on 10/02/2018 9:16:31 PM PDT by JennysCool
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Oh, for crying out loud, Miriam, go write a report or something and quit bothering everybody.


3 posted on 10/02/2018 9:18:35 PM PDT by healy61
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To: healy61

hahahaha


4 posted on 10/02/2018 9:20:40 PM PDT by notaliberal (St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle,)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She can be the first guest on “The Christine Ford Show” on CNN...


5 posted on 10/02/2018 9:22:01 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There’s been a complaint that one side is taking the position “guilty unless proven innocent”. That’s actually the minority view on the Democrat side. The majority view is “guilty, even if proven innocent”. Innocent until proven guilty? Fuggedaboutit.


6 posted on 10/02/2018 9:22:36 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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I thought this would be about Judge Kavanaugh’s house getting vandalized.


7 posted on 10/02/2018 9:22:50 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What bull crap. The Left is creating dysfunctional idiots.


8 posted on 10/02/2018 9:23:33 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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Prichard teamed up with a Davenport church so people could reflect in a quiet space.

That's not a church and they aren't serving Christ.
9 posted on 10/02/2018 9:24:31 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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I guess this “church” doesn’t believe in all 10 commandments:

The 9th Commandment:

“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.


10 posted on 10/02/2018 9:26:01 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: laplata

The left IS “dysfunctional idiots”


11 posted on 10/02/2018 9:26:55 PM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Barf alert !


12 posted on 10/02/2018 9:27:04 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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BBC, the biggest FakeNewsMSM of all, would appear to be on Dr. Ford’s side!

2 Oct: BBC: Trump: ‘Scary and difficult time for young men’ in US
Mr Trump’s remarks came as he reiterated his support for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who is battling sexual misconduct claims by several women...
His appointment would be expected to tilt America’s top court in favour of conservatives for years to come...

Court of public opinion
Analysis by Anthony Zurcher, BBC North America correspondent
The president has come to the defence of young (presumably white, presumably privileged) men, innocent or guilty, who suddenly find their reputations and livelihood threatened a year after the #MeToo whirlwind first swept on to the scene
In a nation where young black men are incarcerated at a rate five times those of their white counterparts, the concept of “innocent until proven guilty” in criminal proceedings may ring hollow. For the rest of the nation, however - particularly the wealthy and well-connected - it has been central to the American concept of justice and due process.

Those guarantees are proving to be scant protection now, however, when it’s the court of public opinion, the court of the mass media, the court of American culture at large that are rendering their verdicts...

If his nomination fails, he may still be a judge - but he will be always be the accused judge...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45722404


13 posted on 10/02/2018 9:27:35 PM PDT by MAGAthon (O)
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"She says hearing the testimony from survivors can be traumatizing for other survivors."

Someone who experienced the Holocaust firsthand, and lived to tell, is a survivor.

Some spoiled whiny lib in Iowa who had a sour romance is not a "survivor".
 

14 posted on 10/02/2018 9:27:39 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!)
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BBC, the biggest FakeNewsMSM of all, would appear to be on Dr. Ford’s side!

Well, of course they are. Like you said: "the biggest FakeNewsMSM of all"
15 posted on 10/02/2018 9:28:48 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Vince Ferrer
I thought this would be about Judge Kavanaugh’s house getting vandalized.

I hope that never happens. Unfortunately I worry that more might happen.

These people are deranged. They have been entitled their entire lives and are unable to deal with losing. They are capable of anything.

16 posted on 10/02/2018 9:32:29 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My wife experienced abuse and tells me she thinks what Ford says happened is not abuse. Also, it’s in the past and should not control her life anymore.

Her experience was over 40 years ago. She knows where it happened, who was there, and when it happened.


17 posted on 10/02/2018 9:33:46 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Democrat Party, making Mental Illness mainstream.


18 posted on 10/02/2018 9:34:18 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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Ford is not a survivor. We are the survivor.


19 posted on 10/02/2018 9:37:46 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wouldn’t it be easier for her to tell her patients how to turn their TVs on and off?


20 posted on 10/02/2018 9:43:30 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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