National Stalking Awareness Week

[Iwantmeback]

National Stalking Awareness Week begins next week.
“Research has found that 87%, 9/10 victims were stalked by someone known to them and that 34%, 1/3rd were targeted by a partner or former partner. The new research is advocating that non violent stalking can cause lasting psycological damage to victims and should be treated as seriously as domestic abuse by the judicial system. There’s also a campaign #StalkingStealsLives which aims to raise awareness among health professionals about the seriousness of stalking”.
Courtesy of Glasgow Caledonian University research team

[White Rose]

I didn’t used to think of stalking as part of a pattern of abuse, but it is and it’s frightening.
My ex started turning up at my daughters place of work and sitting in his car in wait for her.
He’s been reported to police, but as it’s a public place there’s little she or I can do unless he approaches her. Work have a safety plan in place for her in case he enters the building, which makes me so relieved that the team she works with are switched on.
She’s regrown the armour she shed when we left and blanks him completely. I meet her from work when I can and sometimes she gets a lift with her boss.
He’ll get bored of it soon and move onto another method of abuse from a distance.
Does he not have anything better to do with his time?

[Twisted Sister]

Dear Iwantmeback

Thank you for posting this important profile raising campaign.

Stalking is a silent killer.

X

[freedomtochoose]

Yes, this is really important.
I first came across the woman who is behind this intiative in a therapy magazine a few months back.Unfortuantey I can’t recall her name at the moment, will try to did it out, I posted on this a while back. She is a therapist and was stalked herself, and went through all that stuff about it being dismissed, and internalising it and everything, before she decided to change the law in Scotland about it and founded an entire organisation to tackle it. She pointed out that there are very similar dynamics between domestic abuse and stalking

I assume that the research intiative is connected with what she is doing as it is the same geographical area, will try to dig it out again.

well done for posting this
ftc
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[Iwantmeback]

Hi FTC , I’ve just sent you a dm regarding this.
💕💕

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