Many of my clients have unstable emotions in their daily lives. They might suddenly feel very sad in a gathering with their friends. They might also experience out of proportion anger towards their children when working from home. Sometimes, in the evening when being alone, they might experience a mixture of shame or guilt that …
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One of my clients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) got triggered by her boyfriend’s recent heavy workload because he could not see her as much as he used to see her. After her boyfriend requested to have more “me time” for himself after work, she had intense emotional fluctuation and engaged in self-harm by cutting …
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Some of my clients were unable to be alone and constantly needed the companion of others. If they lived alone, they needed to be in contact with their family members or friends all the time in the evening after work. In weekends, they cannot engage in solitary activities and needed to have the companionships of …
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One of my clients came back to me due to her recent relapse in depression. She felt her life as meaningless and started to have low motivation for study and enjoy leisure activities. She used to have a very clear goal of becoming an architect in high school. She studied very hard in order to …
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Many people had watched the movie, Top Gun: Maverick, and were impressed by the cinematography and the strengths of bravery and persistence embraced in it. Captain Pete Maverick Mitchell, a US Navy pilot took up a nearly impossible and risky mission to teach a group of elite aviators to bomb a foreign country’s unsanctioned uranium …
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 …
