Category: Family

Over two decades ago, as a newcomer in Sweden, I was trying to register for a Swedish language class. I could appreciate how learning the native language would give me the key for many things. In order to start somewhere, I had to attend a neighborhood community college that was suggested to me. In the…

The trauma of suicide and the need for raising awareness in our Iranian Community is higher than ever before. Every now and then another tragedy of suicide hits our communities. Suicide is occurring in every community, however in our Iranian one, we lack debate about this issue and we lack to gather preventive measures. The…

Since 2004 I work for BC Society for male survivors of sexual abuse, where we have the most silent and stigmatized individuals who would indeed need years of therapy. Prior to working for this agency I had no idea how much men could suffer from such crime and always related sexual abuse to women-only- problem.…

Surely, with the general knowledge of our human history, we can recognize the fact that there have always been groups of people, mostly men, who created their own “gangs” by “ganging up” against the norms, while crimes and violence are intertwined with this life style. We have to discuss the psychological components of a gang…