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Sky
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 Posted - 05/26/2010 : 23:59:30
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the 800 page DSM [Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders] would be shrunk to a pamphlet in two generations."
-John Briere, American traumatologist
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Peg
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Posted - 05/27/2010 : 07:28:09
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Wow. That's powerful Sky, and IMHO, so true.
I was talking with my daughter yesterday. She is in college for a masters in elementary education and psychology. In working at an after school program in an elementary school, she has made some astute observations. She has seen that the children with the more challenging behaviors, are picked up by parents who are stressed, rushed, and don't seem to be enjoying their children. On occasion a parent forgets to pick up the child. Her sad assessment is that there are far more parents who appear to be overwhelmed, or who have poor parenting skills, than there are good parents.
I wish there was education on emotional health throughout schooling, and mandatory child development, psychology and parenting courses in high school.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. Galileo Galilei |
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Sky
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Posted - 05/27/2010 : 23:53:24
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Wow. Thanks for sharing Peg. From my perspective, not a single Sarno-like symptom isn't the product of fissures in our own senses of self that were first instilled in us by our parents.
Later pressures, bullies, and other forms of abuse in life simply drive those fissures deeper and wider. But they needed an opening (our first heartbreaks, even the most "minor" seeming ones, in our parent-child relationship) before they could ever start penetrating us in the first place.
If our parents loved us for who WE were, not who they wanted (re: needed, based on their own insecurities) us to be; if they allowed us to have and vent our sadness, frustration, anger, and loneliness, and not feel like it'd be best to bottle it up and deny it; if they let us spend the first hours of our lives in our mothers' loving arms and not stacked away in a hospital nursery with 50 other lonely, wailing babies who also want to be with their mothers (this might be the first unnecessary trauma most of us growing up in this world endured), then we'd be whole. We'd be in touch with who we are, what we felt in the past, and what we feel in the present.
If you are one of the lucky lucky very few on earth who had such an upbringing, there's no room for repressed emotions in the equation.
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"If we could end childhood abuse and neglect,
