One of my clients brought her husband to see me due to their difficult marital relationship. With thorough interviews with the couple and each of them, I found that the husband is a disconnected, self-absorbed, unempathetic and emotionally detached person, who may have a number of narcissistic traits. The wife felt extremely lonely in the …
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Our seeing and not seeing
In a gathering with some friends, a couple talked about their experience in choosing a new car. The couple had difficulty in making the final decision of choosing which model to buy and asked us for some opinions. I asked the couple about their thoughts on the two models they are choosing. The husband preferred …
The lack of boundaries with an immature parent may cause difficulty to cultivate healthy adult relationships
In my clinical practice, a lot of my clients reported their parents as being immature and they are deprived of emotional support and guidance from them. Most of my clients did not realise their parents as immature as they thought they had provided them with shelter, food and education in their childhood. However, as they …
As an introvert, how can I develop intimate relationships with friends and partners?
The loosening of restrictions for social distancing in recent few weeks in Hong Kong enable many people to enjoy large-group social gatherings. People who are enthusiastic about socialising start to publish posting of their parties in social media. However, for those with more introverted tendency, seeing these posting may trigger their self-doubts about lacking belongings …
Can we really know if someone is a good or bad person?
Since our childhood, we normally learned from our parents that who was the good person and the bad person in a movie? For instance, we might perceive the murderer of a movie to be the bad person or the police who arrested the criminal as the good person. As we grow up, we started to …
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Are you ready for pursuing a life after the temporary suspension due to the 5th wave of the pandemic?
Due to the loosening of restrictions of the social distancing measures recently, many of our normal activities, such as schooling, working in the office, or dining out for dinner, resumed gradually. Some people may easily resume a normal life with minor adjustment after a long restriction. For other people, whose lives are greatly affected due …