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TO @SkyHigh: I found this website, and an interesting article that may help you, and your anger issues: What is childhood abandonment? Childhood abandonment is when a parent or caregiver does not provide a child with an environment that offers safety or adequate access to basic needs, care, attention, and support. Childhood abandonment can happen intentionally or unintentionally. As shocking as it might seem, child maltreatment and neglect is pretty common. In the United State, roughly 1 in 7 children have experienced abuse or abandonment[1]. And while many laws have been enacted in the last several decades to combat it, a history of childhood abandonment has existed for thousands of years. The lingering effects of this type of childhood traumatic experience can be seen and felt into adulthood. Childhood abandonment can happen in many ways, including physical abandonment, emotional neglect, and unintentional abandonment due to sickness or death. Physical abandonment Physical abandonment is when a parent physically separates from a child. It’s the type of abandonment we think of most often when we hear the word, like a parent leaving their child in front of a fire station or at a hospital. Physical abandonment can also include physical neglect, which is when a parent doesn’t physically give up the child but doesn’t provide for their physical needs. Signs of physical neglect might include: Poor personal hygiene or physical appearance Lack of clothing and supplies to meet basic needs Lack of or inadequate access to food; food hoarding behaviors Inadequate or inconsistent shelter/housing Inadequate attention to healthcare needs (medical, dental, dietary, psychological, etc) Emotional neglect Emotional neglect is a lack of attention or awareness of a child’s emotional and developmental needs. This might involve a parent or guardian actively ignoring a child’s need for love, support, or attention. Signs of emotional neglect might include: Difficulty expressing or managing emotions Social withdrawal Difficulty making or sustaining relationships Anxiety Depression Parents/guardians might be emotionally unavailable due to other issues such as substance use disorders, mental health conditions, and poverty. These issues potentially hinder their ability to be present and active in a child’s life. Long-term effects of childhood abandonment The effects of childhood abandonment don’t go away when the child gets older. Many adults who were abandoned as children continue to experience the harmful consequences. A lot of this has to do with how abandonment and neglect can impact the developing brain. Effects of neglect on the developing brain Childhood abandonment can have a profound effect on the developing brain in the early stages of life that continue well into adulthood[2]. Meaningful and connected relationships are a crucial aspect of development; without those relationships, children’s development and well-being can be negatively impacted. Neglect and abandonment alter how the brain develops and can cause cognitive delays that affect a child’s memory, their ability to plan, and focus their attention – all crucial skills for learning and development. Chronic, or long-term, neglect is associated with a prolonged stress response that can lead to difficulty regulating emotions, poor impulse control, low self-confidence, and low level of enthusiasm. All of these factors can contribute to behavioral and psychological effects in adulthood. Effects on adult relationships Childhood abandonment can also greatly impact our relationships later in life. Research in Attachment Theory suggests that our early relationships and emotional bonding can influence the way we form relationships, or not, throughout life. Without safe and dependable relationships, a child may develop an insecure attachment style and struggle to have healthy, meaningful relationships in adulthood. An insecure attachment style as an adult might show up as a fear of abandonment. In relationships, a fear of abandonment might look like fast, intense attachment to a partner or intense feelings of anxiety when away from one’s partner. On the opposite side, some people may develop an extreme sense of independence. They might experience a fear of being too dependent, feeling like they can never allow themselves to count on anyone else for help or support, and struggle with fully committing to a relationship. Effects on self-esteem Self-esteem is another cognitive concept that develops and is shaped in the early stages of life. Developing a healthy sense of self-esteem can be attributed to attentive, responsive caregivers who help validate a child’s sense of self. Caregivers, attentive or not, shape the way a child comes to see themselves. Without attentive, responsive caregivers, children might develop strong feelings of self-doubt, low self-confidence and self-worth. When a child is abandoned, they may develop a core belief that they aren’t lovable or worthy. Children may internalize and blame themselves for the parent’s abandonment. It is also possible that a child might develop an overestimation and false sense of self that is unrealistic. Mental health effects In general, childhood maltreatment is linked to a higher risk for mental illness. At a young age, a lack of responsive relationships creates stress and activates the body’s stress response system. A prolonged lack of responsiveness develops into a toxic stress response that alters the architecture of the brain and body systems. A number of mental health conditions are thought to be associated with childhood abandonment. For example, in borderline personality disorder (BPD), a key feature is a fear of abandonment. Although many factors can lead to BPD, the intense fear of abandonment is rooted in some type of childhood trauma. Childhood abandonment isn’t a singular cause of BPD, but it can contribute to its development. And studies show that BPD is associated with childhood abuse and neglect more often than any other mental health condition[3]. Other mental health conditions believed to have connections to abandonment are: Anxiety Codependency Depression Effects on behavior With the potential impacts on the developing brain, childhood abandonment can also affect behavior. One study found that childhood abandonment and trauma may contribute to violent offenses[4]. Of course, a violent offense could be related to other changes that happen to the developing brain in abandonment. Hypersensitivity to criticism, increased mistrust, poor impulse control, and poor emotional regulation are factors that could compound to create an environment where a violent offense happens — all of which have been linked to childhood abandonment. Signs of abandonment issues in adults What are some of the signs that a person may have been impacted by abandonment as a child? They need constant reassurance they’re loved and won’t be abandoned. They reject people before being rejected themselves. They have a pattern of volatile relationships or going from one relationship to another. They have a core belief that they are unlovable. They may engage in self-harm or have other mental health challenges. They behave very “needy” in relationships or are overly dependent on relationships. They experience extreme jealousy in relationships. They are overly people-pleasing or forgo their own needs in order to please others. They have a hard time trusting others. They have an unhealthy sense of independence and have a difficult time asking for support. They lack boundaries in relationships. They have trouble communicating their own needs. They worry excessively or ruminate about loved ones leaving them, either intentionally or through death. To be clear, a fear of abandonment can come from many root causes, of which childhood abandonment is only one. Many people have a fear of abandonment even if they weren’t abandoned as children. How to heal from abandonment issues While the void left by abandonment often leads us to experience some or all of the effects outlined above, there are ways to heal from abandonment issues. While it may not be possible to go back and change the past, it is possible to acknowledge the damage and pain of what happened, to begin to change your mindset, and develop healthy coping strategies for the times when abandonment issues surface. Change doesn’t happen as quickly as many would like, but committing to healing is the first step on the road ahead. Get to know your inner child The concept of the inner child is really just another way to acknowledge that the wounds we experience in childhood remain throughout our lives. By imagining ourselves as a child, we can reconnect with the person we were at the time of the trauma. We can begin to come to terms with the impact of our abandonment. We can see through our adult eyes that what happened was not okay. We can offer ourselves the kind of love, care, and protection we missed out on as a result of being abandoned. We can also listen to the part of us that is scared, sad, lonely, or angry. We can tell ourselves we are safe now, we didn’t do anything wrong, and we are loved. We can begin to accept our wounds and look for ways to backfill the things we didn’t receive, whether that’s learning, material goods, or emotional support. Reconnecting with our feelings After learning to cut off from our feelings as a protective coping strategy, reconnecting with our feelings can be an overwhelming prospect. Emotions are the body’s way of keeping us out of danger, and of driving us to act. Good examples of this include anger telling us that something is unjust or requires protection. Fear keeps us safe by communicating when we should escape or hide. Sadness alerts us to the loss of something important. The thing about emotions is we cannot pick and choose which ones to experience. We have to open ourselves up to the full range of emotions if we want to feel joy, love, and happiness. If you have responded to abandonment trauma by disconnecting from your feelings, relearning is possible. This is known as emotional literacy. The Feelings Wheel is a helpful tool for identifying what you might be feeling, and helping you to find the words to describe what you’re feeling. There is another version – the Emotion Sensation Feelings Wheel – designed to help describe what emotions feel like in the body. It can be helpful to seek out a mental health professional to support you with this process. Self care According to Jonice Webb, PhD, author of ‘Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect’, there are several ways in which you might fall down when it comes to taking care of yourself and your own needs. She says these are skills you can develop in adulthood, given time and conscious effort. Nurturing. This refers to helping yourself have a healthy, enjoyable life through putting yourself first (including saying no, asking for help, honoring your likes and dislikes, and prioritizing your own enjoyment) eating, exercise, and rest and relaxation. Self discipline. This is about making yourself do things you don’t want to do and stopping yourself from doing things you shouldn’t do, something those with abandonment issues may find difficult. Self soothing. Children whose emotions are accepted, tolerated, and soothed internalize this ability, and use it through life. List out the healthy self-soothing strategies that work for you in times of stress or distress. Self compassion Self compassion is another area in which you might fall down when it comes to taking care of yourself and your needs. Self compassion just means giving ourselves the same kindness and care we’d give to a good friend. Dr. Kristin Neff is one of the world’s leading researchers on self compassion. She runs the Center for Mindful Self Compassion where she studies how we develop and practice self compassion. Her research has identified three elements of self compassion: Self kindness vs self judgment: Self-compassionate people recognize that being imperfect, failing, and experiencing life difficulties is inevitable, so they tend to be gentle with themselves when confronted with painful experiences rather than getting angry when life falls short of set ideals. Common humanity vs isolation: Recognizing that suffering and personal inadequacy is part of the shared human experience – something we all go through rather than being something that happens to “me” alone. Mindfulness vs over identification: Mindfulness is a non-judgmental, receptive mind state in which one observes thoughts and feelings as they are, without trying to suppress or deny them. We cannot ignore and feel compassion for our pain at the same time. Mindfulness requires that we not be “over-identified” with our thoughts and feelings, so that we are caught up and swept away by negative reactivity. Dr. Neff’s work includes developing guided practices and exercises designed to help you to develop your self compassion. Shame in particular requires empathy, as well as self compassion, to heal. Shame is a social emotion. In other words, it happens between people which therefore means that it requires healing alongside others. Talking therapy is a particularly helpful method for healing shame as you work alongside a therapist who supports you from an empathic and supportive stance. When you are struggling with abandonment trauma, it may feel as though you will never get your life back, and that things will never go back to usual. But there is HOPE – proven treatment is available to help you through each step of your journey towards wellness https://www.aplaceofhope.com/the-effects-of-childhood-abandonment-in-adulthood/ --- Good luck @SkyHigh. I believe in you!

This imbecile is at it again. Support for Trump, and being proud of Canada, are incompatible at this point. We need a leader who has the balls to stand up to this buffoon, and put him in his place.

I'm taking the high road after this post. We both know that you launched unsolicited, and very personal attacks against me,and I have the tendency to "drop the gloves." It should be a given, that if someone attempts to engage in character assassination, they should not cry when the other person hits back harder. I may have had an alcohol issue in the past, and made mistakes. However, at the very least, my parents did not reject me, and I was not bounced around through numerous foster families. I can see you have abandonment issues, so I will leave you be. It's obvious that you need psychiatric intervention. I don;t blame you though. I would be mad at the World if I was rejected by all my parental figures thorough my childhood too.

I find it telling that the same people who spread misinformation,, are the same people who want to defund the CBC, and banish the MSM. I never knew how fortunate Canada is to have the CBC, after the attacks on freedom of the press, since Trump announced his candidacy.

I wish the mods would do something, in regards to certain people making garbage threads over and over again.

The Canadian people want to know his platform. Not just "Liberals." I have a feeling that once the CSIS report on foreign interference comes out on January 31, we will get a good indication on how much PP and the Conservatives have been compromised. He said nothing. He blamed Trudeau for everything, and offered no solutions. Even Trump has offered solutions to Americans problems (even though he has no intention on following through on them).

On a side note, Antifa has it's roots in Germany. Antifa was created as a self-defence organisation in 1932, to battle the Nazi storm-troopers, who were attacking political opponents, especially socialists and Jews. Many brutal battles were held between the two groups, until Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, and torched the Reichstag building, and jailed all his political opponents.

Elon is currently trying to prop up far right Governments in Germany, France, the UK, and other countries. He is also trying to show division and racism in these countries. It will probably be a case of "when" and not "if" the EU countries ban Musk's social media app from their countries. I think Canada should follow Brazil's lead, and ban Twitter/X.

I pray that the Canadian campaign is not affected too much by disinformation created by foreign bad faith actors. Very interesting to see that without disinformation, the Conservatives would not stand a chance.

Too bad PP has not revealed anything significant about a platform, and seems content to trash the Liberal Party. The guy has 0 answers to Canada's problems.

Statistics Canada revised their population clock, as Canada is now finally starting to curtail mass migration. It peaked in 2023, and is expected to come down to historical levels within a couple of years. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2018005-eng.htm Since 2021, Toronto has been the fastest growing city in absolute numbers, easily eclipsing NYC, LA, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Atlanta, and Washington DC. Toronto is now the 6th largest metro area in North America, only behind NYC, LA, Chicago, Dallas-Ft.Worth, and Houston. Calgary has been arguably the fastest growing city of the past 20 years. In 2024, the population was roughly 1,000,000 people. After stagnant growth in the 90s/early 2000s, Winnipeg has passed Hamilton and Quebec, to regain the #7 spot in terms of population.

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This is just untrue. For the first 100 years of Canada, the Chinese never accounted for more the 0.4% of the Canadian population. Nearly all Chinese were located in British Columbia. The peak percentage of Chinese in Canada, was 0.4% in 1921, when here were approximately 30,000 Chinese out of a population of 8.75 million Canadians. The vast majority were living in BC, while Toronto has only 1,000 Chinese in a city of over 520,000 people. It pretty much was true from after World War 1 to the mid 1960s. Even Jews (who were considered White), were infamously excluded from seeking refuge in Canada, when they were escaping Nazi Germany. In 1902, the Liberal Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier appointed a Royal Commission on Chinese and Japanese Immigration, whose report stated that the Asians were "unfit for full citizenship ... obnoxious to a free community and dangerous to the state."[10] Following the Royal Commission's report, Parliament voted to increase the Chinese head tax to $500, which temporarily caused Chinese immigration to Canada to stop.[10] However, those Chinese wishing to go to Canada began to save up money to pay the head tax, which led to agitation, especially in British Columbia for the Dominion government to ban Asian immigration.[10] Between September 7–9, 1907, an anti-Asian pogrom took place in Vancouver. The Asiatic Exclusion League organised attacks against homes and businesses owned by Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Indian immigrants under the slogan "White Canada Forever!"; though no one was killed, much property damage was done and numerous Asian-Canadians were beaten. In 1923, the federal Liberal government of William Lyon Mackenzie King banned Chinese immigration with the passage of the Chinese Immigration Act of 1923, although numerous exemptions for businessmen, clergy, students and others did not end immigration entirely.[15] With this act, the Chinese received similar legal treatment to blacks before them who Canada also had specifically excluded from immigration on the basis of race. (This was formalised in 1911 by Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier who in Sub-section (c) of Section 38 of the Immigration Act called blacks "unsuitable" for Canada.) During the next 25 years, more and more laws against the Chinese were passed. It was nearly impossible to emigrate to Canada for non-Whites until the 60s. The population proves this- under 1% of the population (Chinese, South Asians, Japanese, etc), were from Asia. Asians were not even allowed to vote in elections, until 1947, You should pick up a history book, and actually learn about Canada, since you are not from here.

MAGA's tend to be far more religious, have not been to college, come from rural areas, and are White men. Evangelical Christians are Cult-like, so the transition to the MAGA movement is not unexpected.

It was like this in Winnipeg too. My Dad grew up in an area that had a significant Jewish population, so I knew some things about Jews. In school, some kids used to call things "Jewish," if they thought something was cheap. However, that was nothing compared to the treatment of South Asians (mainly Hindi) people and Jamaicans. My neighbourhood was close to the University, and to this day, the suburb still has the highest percentage of Hindi's and Chinese. Most of the the Sikhs and Filipinos are on the other side of the city. This is why I don't trust PP. He is my age, and to say racism was manufactured, and started with Trudeau, is just insulting our intelligence. It's worse in rural areas, as I still recall living in Brooks, AB for a year. It was like the Canadian deep south, with areas that Somalis did not frequent, due to locals harassing them, and some areas respectable locals would not venture into, due to it being considered the "Somali" area.

Estimated population as of July 1, 2024. 1.. Toronto 7,000,000 2. Montreal 4,520,000 3, Vancouver 3,025,000 4. Calgary 1,745,000 5. Ottawa-Gatineau 1,640,000 6. Edmonton 1,600,000 7. Winnipeg 935,000 8. Quebec 895,000 9. Hamilton 850,000

Your input would be appreciated.

Why do some posters continue to make these ridiculous threads? I made a parody of this thread here:

They were stopped four times in the red zone, and turned the ball over with no points, after gambling on 4th down. It could have been 24-10. Then the Lions gained the momentum, and the defense was exposed. I don't think that would have happened if the QB did not have his worst game ever. The Vikings have made the playoffs 6 times in the last 10 years. The Lions have only made the playoffs twice.

The Vikings blew it. Sam Donald had his worst game of his career, when the chips were down. Overthrowing receivers, and not scoring in the red zone. The Vikings could have led 24-10 at the half, and put the game away early in the 3rd Q. However, it was not to be, and the Lions managed to break through the Vikings D.

What Communists?

Not many... IIRC, over 75% of people surveyed agree with banning biological males from Woman's sports. It's cheating.

Lions finish at 15-2, and clinch the #1 seed in the Conference. Playoffs are set.