Search results

I'd love to sit next to you in the back row, (I always sit in the back row) Alby, and whisper comments with you!

Still getting past being just pissed off that people need an effing picture of brain to confirm what is RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE....

I'm going to this conference in August in Boston on Personhood. I just got the preliminary program. Here is the Plenary session on day 2 . “‘We Are Not Disposable’: People with Psycho-social Disorders and Social Justice” Carol Moeller, Moravian College (Bethlehem, PA, USA) “Dissociative...

Thank you so much for the update - I'd been thinking about you! I would mention that all really interesting and cool people would be a terrible trial to have in a psych hospital - "Much madness is divinest sense, to a discerning eye" Emily Dickenson wrote - I don't know how she meant it...

And now for some comic and loosely related relief...about the failure of exposure and the success of cognitive change.

As a coda to this thread... This is a beautiful essay that I think sums up a lot of why it is difficult for anyone (even a brilliant and awesomely clear thinking group like us) to talk about this stuff.... Link Removed

Hi @Cj77 - Feel free to come on down, and don't worry about the space, take up some more space whenever you like... :tup:

GO SHIMMERZ, OH YEAH! GO SHIMMERZ!!

Exactly. It IS circular. It is a loop. So. How to interrupt the cycle and break the pattern? This seems like an objectively tough nut. Animal trainers are generally of the opinion that if it can be trained/conditioned in, it can be trained/conditioned out. The retraining may not be 100% but...

In a word: No. I told a friend on here some years ago that while she was the "Identified Crazy Person" (ICP) in her family, she did not get that way by herself and (unlike them) SHE WAS GETTING BETTER. How crazy is that? Not. Right. So. Also, conversations with my SIL this week have made it...

How peculiar. I had vanilla cappuchino (2 cups!) this AM. I never have this... (spooky...:nailbiting::whistling:)

I would only add to the above (which seem quite sensible to me, but what do I know?) that there are two basic emotional response systems (prior to social learning) PANIC and FEAR that can "feel fearful." Fear of abandonment (which has no target - no clear and present danger that will attack...

The books say ANPs are pretty much always phobic of EPs for exactly the reasons @shimmerz says. The same books also say that STABILIZING is crucial before trying to get the ANP to talk to the EPs. The T could talk to the EP? Maybe there are others around you who could talk to an EP if she was...

Absolutely. It is all yours.

I also think this is a super idea. And I also first thought the bear when I saw the title! Such is the power of association!:D In the states "veteran" means anyone who served, and younger vets are as common as older. TED committee is in the States, so I'd think that is ok. Editing is not my...

@scout - I"ll help with the feeding - I need routine. Although, my horse would tell you that I am always late on the feeding thing... No matter what time it is! Are sheep more appreciative? I was thinking also a bandstand, and dancing ... that could be on a schedule so you'd know when to show...

When I was a kid I loved all of Madeline L'Engle's book. I think it was in A Wind in the Door - one of the big take home's was this: "Love is not something you feel, love is something you do." It struck me then, and stuck with me. Of course we can feel love of various sorts as well.. but at...

SOOOOOO... psychosis? When someone is psychotic they still operate in space and time, right? Is there causation? (Glomming onto the Kant here...) Thank you for the summary @Cashew ! I'm in there "there is a reality independent of us out there" school of thought. I'm with Kant that...

Coming back later to catch up...

" An emotion, therefore, is a superordinate program which orchestrates and integrates the activities of various functional subprograms including reflexive affects, perception, cognitive appraisals, and feeling states (Cosmides and Tooby, 2000). Core emotional operating systems underlie complex...

First: What a beautiful post Hope. One imagines a book and the enormous good it could bring... On a less serious (but still a little serious) note: Hrumph. Who designs this stuff? I'm afraid of X. I take defensive measures against X. The defensive measures create X. :mad: %#%($%)%*$. And...

Possible alternatives: "It was a train wreck." "It was a perfect storm, and I was the ship." "It was a tragedy." "I was profoundly injured although everyone did their best." Blame, I agree, is not helpful. Keeping score "Morally" is not really the point. Suppose she WAS to blame and should...

Changing beliefs is tricky - no doubt. And they don't yield to just argument along (mostly) Logic can indicate a path, but won't, by itself as you say, do the trick most times. (It is convenient when it does...) One thing you can try is to identify things you DO based on the belief you want to...

Other have said much more, much better than I could. I just wanted to emphasize this: It is impossible to "get being a child wrong." Children are what they are. It is totally the adults' responsibility (response ability) to "get" the child and respond to them and nurture them effectively. That...

ADHD here, PTSD spouse, him also ADHD to some extent. Both of us best explained by Structural Dissociation. It is confusing, needless to say. My personal favorite theory is that at there are varieties of ADHD. One variety is closely related/caused by SD. The PTSD is much more malleable than...