Yvonne Tennyson Blog

Violence against woman has been happening around the world for centuries. Research suggest that “1 in 3, or 35% of women worldwide has experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or sexual violence by a non-partner (not including sexual harassment) at some point in there lives” ("Facts and figures: Ending violence against women", 2020) .   As a domestic violence victim, myself, I do not find this hard to believe. So many women are scared and even feel like it is their fault and in turn they do nothing about the abuse they suffer.   I suffered with this physical and metal pain for 27 years of my life, before I sought help and divorce. It is disturbing to read the facts that “87,000 women who were intentionally killed in 2017 globally, ore than half (50,000-50%) were killed by intimate partners or family members” ("Facts and figures: Ending violence against women", 2020) .   Though we often do not consider it but there are health consequenc...

I chose to take the mental health quiz for this blog. I feel like mental health is very important for everyone. When someone suffers from mental health issues it effects their lives every day. I learned a couple of facts that I was not aware of when taking the self -quiz. One thing I was not aware of was the fact that “Half of all mental illness occurs before a person turns 14 years old, and three-quarters of mental illness begin before age 24” ("Mental Health - Home Page - CDC", 2020).   I find this fact interesting because my son was diagnosed with bipolar and anxiety disorder at the age of 18. Being alarmed early when he was younger around the age of 15, I had taken him to the doctor, who at the time informed me that if he was making good grades in school, he was fine.   At the age of 18 when it was clear he was suffering; he could not even take a test in school with out getting worked up and nervous. At one point he was in the hallway bent over trying to catch his breath...