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Archive for May, 2009

Four Therapists and a Termination

Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Termination is something the Terminator does to annoying people who irritate him. Termination, as in terminating therapy, for me sounds as though I am planning my own funeral. Ending therapy sounds better and ...
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Existential Moments of Psychology

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
I had a mind-bending existential experience yesterday. I attend University where I am doing a psychology degree. When I received my latest assignment instead of a high distinction I was expecting - I ...
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Depression, Grieving and Therapy

Thursday, May 21st, 2009
Depression knows my address very well. It has visited many times over the past fourteen years. Even when the door is closed and locked it manages to furtively sneak in through the keyhole ...
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Ending Therapy - A Grieving Process

Sunday, May 17th, 2009
The time has to come to end therapy. After thirteen years it’s not an easy decision and one that I’ve wrestled with for at least the past two. Ending a therapeutic relationship for ...
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Walk Therapy

Thursday, May 14th, 2009
I have three children and while I love them all equally sometimes it’s difficult to give them equal attention. So when my middle child, the oldest son came to me and complained I spent ...
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Peeling the Layers of Family Therapy

Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Today’s society not only encourages, but expects us to have a post-graduate career, a loving partner, happy, motivated children, an even greater post-natal career, followed by a well-deserved nervous breakdown. If you’re not highly-strung ...
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What Women Want

Monday, May 11th, 2009
There is no shortage of people who feel that post-natal-depression was invented somewhere around the early seventies. My father is convinced there was no such thing back in his mother’s time when she had ...
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Therapy

Thursday, May 7th, 2009
I have written many stories about my therapist. She is an exceptional lady, has a great sense of humor, was a journalist in another life and enjoys and approves of my blogs before I ...
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Mothers’ Psychology of Breastfeeding - When the Milk of Human Kindness Turns to Sour Cream

Monday, May 4th, 2009
Breastfeeding, unlike Hugh Jackman’s butt is not all it's cracked up to be. Anyone who has suffered the toe-curling experience of trying to breastfeed with sore, cracked, scabbed and bleeding nipples, will understand when I ...
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