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| I've sort of moved to a more active, current blog over here:
Turtle Dove
Counseling Blog.
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If you would like to have some fun with your friends or family, here are some other questions you can take turns asking each other - or you can make up your own. Visual Remembered
What is the colour of the shirt you wore yesterday?
Which of your friends has the shortest hair? Visual Constructed
What would your room look like if it were painted yellow with big purple circles?
Can you imagine the top half of a tiger on the bottom half of an elephant? Auditory Remembered
What does your best friend’s voice sound like?
Which is louder, your door bell or your telephone? Auditory Constructed
What will your voice sound like in 10 years?
What would it sound like if you played your two favourite pieces of music at the same time? Auditory Digital
What is something you continually tell yourself?
What are your thoughts about this article? Kinesthetic
What does it feel like to walk barefoot on a cool sandy beach?
What does it feel like when you rub your fingers on sandpaper? http://www.renewal.ca/newsletter0401.htm | | |
| Inner Child Healing
About.com guide Phylameana lila Desy has compiled a library of links about healing the "inner child." Codependence?Some of the nicest people I know are codependent. They always smile, never refuse to do a favor. They are happy and bubbly all the time. They understand others and have the ability to make people feel good. People like them! So, what is wrong with this? Can Al-Anon Really Help?Are you affected by someone else's drinking? Here are 20 questions that may help you determine if Al-Anon could benefit you. Codependency QuestionaireA list of 20 questions aimed at determining if you have codependency tendencies, from the Alcoholics for Christ web site. Co-dependents AnonymousCo-Dependents Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women whose common purpose is to develop healthy relationships. |
Empowerment & Victimization"As long as we look outside of Self with a capital S to find out who we are, to define ourselves and give us self-worth, we are setting ourselves up to be victims." Feeling the Feelings"It is through healing our inner child, by grieving the wounds that we suffered, that we can change our behavior patterns and clear our emotional process." Gratitude - a Vital ToolWe all have much to be grateful for, to give thanksgiving for, if we just choose to look at the half of the glass that is full. Learning to Love Our Selves"Learning to have internal boundaries is a dynamic process that involves three distinctly different, but intimately interconnected, spheres of work." Partners & ParadoxUnless you've been through it yourself, it's hard to imagine the emotional tangles that life serves up to someone who is involved with an alcoholic. Serenity and ExpectationsRobert Burney says, "The most insidious level of expectations for me had to do with my expectations of myself." Stinking ThinkingThe Joy2MeU web site lists some traits of stinking thinking including black-and-white thinking, magical thinking, and "starring in the soap opera." Truth vs Emotional TruthFeelings are real -- they are emotional energy that is manifested in our body but they are not necessarily fact. The Alcohologenic ParentThere are two distinct experiences for adults who are trying to overcome dysfunction and struggling to build strength and health in their lives. What Love Is NotIf someone loves you, it should feel like they love you, says Robert Burney in the first part of a series on "What Love Is." If the things in the list above sound familiar to you I highly recommend Pia Melody's book Facing Love Addiction. By Pia Mellody Setting Functional Boundaries. |
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| Wikipedia: "Dissociative Identity Disorder, as defined by the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a condition in which a single person displays multiple distinct identities or personalities, each with its own pattern of perceiving and interacting with the environment.[1] The diagnosis requires that at least two personalities routinely take control of the individual's behavior with an associated memory loss that goes beyond normal forgetfulness; in addition, symptoms cannot be due to substance abuse or medical condition. Earlier versions of the DSM named the condition multiple personality disorder (MPD), and the term is still used by the ICD-10. There is controversy around the existence, the possible causes, the prevalence across cultures, and the epidemiology of the condition." "Multiple personality disorder (MPD) is a psychiatric disorder characterized by having at least one "alter" personality that controls behavior. The "alters" are said to occur spontaneously and involuntarily, and function more or less independently of each other. The unity of consciousness, by which we identify our selves, is said to be absent in MPD. Another symptom of MPD is significant amnesia which can't be explained by ordinary forgetfulness. In 1994, the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-IV replaced the designation of MPD with DID: dissociative identity disorder. The label may have changed, but the list of symptoms remained essentially the same." http://skepdic.com/mpd.html "Dissociation is a mental process in which there is a lack of connection in thoughts, memories, feelings, actions or identity. While dissociating, certain information is not associated with other information as it normally would be. Some believe that dissociation exists on a continuum ranging from daydreaming to Dissociative Identity Disorder at the other. However there is great overlap between the different dissociative disorders (DD), including DID." http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=38077 "There are four major dissociative disorders: - Dissociative amnesia
- Dissociative identity disorder
- Dissociative fugue
- Depersonalization disorder
Symptoms common to all types of dissociative disorders include: | | |
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