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Greetings, At present I'm growing short of resources and need to secure work, hence time is running out. I've reviewed some materials in relation to Asperger Syndrome, and while some aspects of experience resonate, most do not. Social cues, etc. are read with fair accuracy, whereas while my...

I'm sorry - short follow up, I've read that some who see therapists desire only a narcissistic mirror; i.e. someone that reflects back what a person who feels entitled and highly critical of others (i.e. loathing self all the while) only what they want to see/hear. In short - no therapeutic...

Hello again, Worried and unhappy. Same therapist, same cognitive behavioral stress testing misfire again this day - and I really don't know what to do. Clearly my therapist subscribes deeply to the validity of cognitive behavioral/adjustment model, and yet it seems an inadequate and...

Welcome Jason, What I can offer may not reach the threshold of understanding consistent with meaning so very much to you, but all the same it reflects what I've been doing. Even as the focus required to read anything just seems in so short supply (been there too) I find memoirs of political...

Greetings, Although this always seems my all-purpose solution, seeking out some reading material that would prompt reassessment of territory that seems pretty stale even as it debilitates really could help. There must be something applicable, perhaps a title embraced by those on the sister MSA...

Greetings, Appreciate in measure that self-loathing is part of the human condition, experiences of trauma or not. The desire to withdraw, an inclination to render self invisible even as alarm bells are heard within to the extent that we cannot be loved, that we cannot be understood, that no...

Greetings, For myself I would relate that such involves embrace of aspects of identity consistent with defending certain personal inclinations and behaviors, with this sometimes being consistent with strengthening boundaries in the face of threats however manifest. O.K. - just what am I saying...

Greetings, If it helps, know that a great many people around you within a community college environment too have stories, have pressures bearing upon them, and that only 20%-25% in fact complete their degree programs. Know too that across the typical college career, people often work in many a...

Hello, I thought this was nice - an article in The Atlantic. Sometimes scholarly detachment helps to insulate me from the heat of 'what I seem to be missing'. Perhaps consider: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/05/is-facebook-making-us-lonely/308930/ M.

Greetings, Perhaps dating myself, there was a time I really found the music and lyrics of the Indigo Girls stirring. Perhaps try: http://www.allmusic.com/album/indigo-girls-mw0000620258 A local indie artist by the name of Daisy May also appeals. See (or hear)...

I'll try(!), For long fiction study WAS psych. study! Akin to what Ice_Fire relates, maintain two notebooks as you proceed through a work with one containing material you'd share in class and write about, the second to validate PTSD-tinged impressions that you might not desire to strictly...

Greetings, Perhaps no strict answers in this reply, but empathy nevertheless felt. To ponder matters, it is important to accept that outside formal conceptions of psych., faith, philosophy, etc. that reading fiction, myth, folklore, etc. was the means for those so-driven to informally engage...

I'm so sorry to process the story that I read here, Though not as complex as the tale you relate, my own tale (if I dare relate it in full) seems like enough narrative material to fill three independent film productions entire. I maintain a cork board with a few quotes and such on it, whereas...

Thanks for the kind interest/responses, A frightening place. A newly-built library (well, 2005 anyhow) where old line paraprofessional staff turn on degreed outsiders who can't match the local knowledge/political savvy/and bible thumping power of those who started as shelvers in their...

Hi, Notwithstanding the poor relationships shown up and illuminated for the better (good!), sometimes too it's good to maintain perspective to the extent that textbook anything is derived from the assemblage of fallible people who penned the text. Authority is afforded to those we choose to...

Greetings and thanks for reading this, Mixed feelings of regret, resignation, remorse - and lingering feelings of professional defectiveness too. News just received that a work role that I far from perfectly filled just claimed another causality as this person too was fired. I don't want some...

What is truth? If one is untouched by that one is disinclined to draw into the realm of consciousness, is such wisdom? (Forgive me if I'm fixated on myself and have lost touch with the shape and intent of the thread) M.

Greetings, There are psychologists and those closely-identified with such currents within the body of understanding and knowledge that constitutes the field as to the value or even primacy of catharsis or a cathartic moment. In short and as you might guess, the belief is that for some...

Greetings, Although not a point-for-point answer to your question, some thoughts to share anyhow. For myself it seems that a small succession of discreet reverses will basically prime me to experience traumatic recall. A insensitive driver before me in traffic, my noticing that a library book...

Same rough territory faced here, Discreet ideas to share, although nothing strictly transformative as you might guess. Perhaps identify a place nearby (a coffee shop or some such) where you can arrive two hours earlier than your start time to ease into the need to be at a particular place at a...

Hello, This may constitute odd advice, but might there be a means whereby you could be consistent towards both 'A' and 'B' in line with affording a less-severe reprimand, but at the same time attach some discreet series of conditions or a community service obligation that would in all...

Welcome to the forum, I've had the same rough experience to the extent of working as a librarian and evidencing an exaggerated startle reflect/response. In particular and likely facilitated by longstanding dissociative habits, if I allow myself to read materials of deep personal import on the...

Thanks for the kind interest and response both, Indeed I'm a blend of qualities that mixes heady engagement with the chilliest remote detachment equating to the maintenance of slim hope for connection. It's almost as though I've created in my person and evidence in my orientation a will to...

Hi, To me 'kind regards to the community' is intended to be consistent with celebrating what constitutes the best spirit of understanding and constructive criticism present here. A huge outpouring of pain features everyday of course, but somehow even as terrible as many of us feel there is...

Greetings, I'm not at all sure I want to continue with my present therapist. It seems she places the Freudian conception of optimal psychological functioning right at the top and seemingly invalidates any other perception I might have for smooth functioning in life equates to exemplifying the...