StarShyne 64's List: Psychology

• The pain he feels arises from his impotence in dealing with his son's depression and his growing insight into the  dynamics between his wife and Conrad and, ultimately, between his wife and himself.
• Dr. Berger is  direct in his therapy. He confronts, he challenges, he pushes the limits. Conrad is initially resistant, but eventually  begins to appropriately engage in therapy. Berger gets Conrad to openly express the emotions he has been suppressing –  "Little advice about feeling, kiddo, don't expect it to always tickle." We see this new expressiveness in  Conrad's daily life now, as well, where anger is no longer is suppressed.
• She views it as a sign of weakness and is embarrassed for  others to know of her family's problems
• Conrad confronts his survivor guilt and allows himself to begin to enjoy life.
• The DSM-IV-TR identifies bereavement as a  separate, time-limited state, although the symptoms of major depression may be present. Bereavement is actually an exclusion  criterion for a diagnosis of major depression within the 2 months after the loss.
• distinction between bereavement and major depression is the concept of "recovery.
• may feel that there is no such thing as  recovery
• here may not be recovery, as in the return to the previous state, but rather there is  change in one's cognitive schema, or outlook
• The Rebuilt Self
• The No Meaning/No Growth
• Minimal Threat/Minimal Growth,
• attempting to deny or repress true emotion, or perhaps  never truly able to experience a sense of loss.
• Conrad and his father, however, would have been creating  something new from those broken pieces.
• Minimal Threat/Minimal Growth

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• Many who have experienced trauma are not even aware that the symptoms they struggle to mask or understand are those of post-traumatic stress disorder
• not even aware that the symptoms they struggle to mask
• try to suck it up and independently struggle through.
• ones that are or appear life-threatening, can begin having PTSD symptoms, such as jumpiness, flashbacks or a pervasive sense of imminent doom.
• left them scared and reeling
• often try to repress or to deal with the aftermath
• trying to ignore or alleviate the bounty of fears that threatened to overtake me

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• Anger is a reaction to an emotion, usually fear or guilt.
• The anger a parent may feel when they lose a child is more often the guilt of feeling they failed to protect their child.
• survivors guilt may manifest itself as anger

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• The Narcissist will be drawn to potential mates by their tolerance and moral character, and will mimic that behavior to lure their target, portraying a kindred soul and like-minded generosity of spirit. Once entrenched into a relationship that is difficult to end