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 relations...
approximately 30% of adults report symptoms of insomnia, and 6% to 10% meet diagnostic criteria for an insomnia disorder. several demographic (eg, female sex and increasing age), medical (eg, pain), and psychological (eg, anxiety and depression) factors have been associated with insomnia, and...
Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine DSM-III-R axis I and axis II comorbidity in psychiatrically hospitalized young adults with substance use disorders. Method: Structured diagnostic interviews were given to 117 consecutive inpatients. Seventy patients with substance use disorders and ...
By the time we are adults, most of us have been through some significant changes—a death of a loved one, a friend moving away, a relationship ending, a transition from high school to college to marriage and parenthood. Although most of us adapt to changing circumstances,getting stuck somewh...
As adults, we become afraid of intimacy. We either avoid closeness ourselves or become attached to someone who avoids intimacy, providing the distance that we need to feel safe. (SeeThe Dance of Intimacy) It can work if there’s enough closeness to satisfy our need for connection, but often...
As a psychotherapist specializing in complex developmental trauma in higher functioning adults, I find that it generally takes a long time for clients to build a secure attachment relationship and internalize my myriad ways of limited reparenting functions. ...