It's been my experience that people who self-injure often don’t know why they do it, except that “it works,” even if afterward there is shame. The impulse for even ephemeral relief from emotions or dissociation can be irresistible. Consider the person who, after a hard day, runs t...
Childhood trauma can lead to dissociative amnesia, where a child dissociates during a traumatic event to defend themselves from its impact. It may also lead to the development of false memories. A false memory may be used by the brain to safeguard the child against the intense fee...
Are there others in the group who will supposedly be harmed if that particular person does not return? Are the clients being told that the therapist at Vielseits will only be protected from death if they return? In general, it’s a matter of examining the tricks and methods of deceit ...
If you want to have curly hair have it, if you want to have a ponytail, if you want to have short… It doesn’t really matter. But I think just allowing people the space to do that. And I do think that me doing this as the person that I am, as a player that I am with ...
” Some reported lower levels of anxiety and stress, observing that Isness-D helped them to “dissociate from something within you…I don’t know if it… was my identity or my anxieties that I put on the side…” Another similarly commented, “I arrived feeling pretty anxious and ...
” Some reported lower levels of anxiety and stress, observing that Isness-D helped them to “dissociate from something within you…I don’t know if it… was my identity or my anxieties that I put on the side…” Another similarly commented, “I arrived feeling pretty anxious and ...
For myself, I actually find restorative classes to be the most challenging. My teacher, Shannon Paige, has been one of my most trusted allies throughout my adulthood (she was even the first person to hear the news when I found out I was going to the Olympics!), but on the very rare...
Gavin depends upon her friends to help her tell these raw truths because of the way they're able to love one another unconditionally, she says. “Josette is the cornerstone. She taught me so much.” She cries when she talks about McPherson. “It's their radical self-belief. Everything ...
(in the morning) as a small pellet of finasteride powder placed in bread. These animals willingly ate the pellets from the hand of the person performing the experiments. The paternal control group (F0:Control) received the same bread pellet but without finasteride. The dose of finasteride was ...