She has had crippling anxiety that escalate quickly into severe panic attacks. She is nineteen. We started talking about different types of memory. The BLOCKED kind that is so hidden, there is no active thinking about it.The BEHIND kind that often comes out in another voice, or from another viewing camera, like it didn’t happen […]
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“Things are different, and they aren’t at all what my mind makes them to be.”
(this was originally posted on 4-02-2014) He came into the office pretty heated. He as angry about several things. We reviewed the limbic system’s response in perceived danger. How he couldn’t separate all the things he was mad about. How he couldn’t get access to good thinking for the decisions he had to make. And […]
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(this is a recreation of a post originally done on 4-02-14, which was spammed to death. Here is the new life of it!) Usually he could follow a conversation, and be somewhat curious about thinking differently. Not today. He was under a dark cloud. As we looked at situations in his life, he said just couldn’t […]
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