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...
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 ...
Autistic people process gaze differently than typical people, but it is not yet clear if these differences lie in the processing of eye-shapes or the belief in whether others can see (perceptual mentalizing). We aimed to investigate whether these two models of gaze processing modulate social seek...
if you are up to it, i recommend continuing to eat the trigger food on a regular basis—typically i recommend once a day, though this can vary from person to person—until you feel you are more at peace with it. this may mean being able to enjoy the food, stay mindful, and stop ...
And so of course, when I met up with people, they wanted to give me hugs and so on, I said, Listen man, my left side is really tender and I'd tell them what happened, right? I mean, that makes sense. Now, if I had a friend who kept thumping and pushing in the sore spot,...
” 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 ...
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 ...