Anxiety and fear are common emotions. Functionally, these two emotions are signals for us to be alert to threats and danger. In my clinical experience, clients often tend to obsess in totally eliminating their anxiety and fear. It is because they usually find these two emotions as aversive and unpleasant. For those with social anxiety, …
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Most of the people have experience of having mixed emotions towards someone. A client of mine was frequently being criticized and physicall abused by her father in childhood. When she talked about this in the therapy session, she experienced anger towards her father. She thought that what her father did to her was unacceptable and …
Are you easily overwhlemed by external stimulation? Do you have higher than average empathy? Do you have high emotional reactivity? If your answers are “yes” to these questions, you may have a genetically determined temperament trait known as Sensory Process Sensitivity (SPS). Usually, people with this trait are known as Highly Sensitive Person (HSP). However, …
Throughout our lives, we inevitably had experiences of stress. Sometimes, due to our limitations and some environmental factors, we might be traumatized by these stressful incidents. As a result, we might overreact in the face of future similar external stressors due to the impacts of these trauma on us. A client of mine was frequently …
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People often find it very difficult for them to ask their closed ones to stop ruminating when their closed ones are depressed. It is common that no matter how hard one tried, the depressed person cannot step out from thinking about his or her worthlessness or hopelessness. For instance, a client of mine sufferred from …
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It is quite common for us to see some people repeatedly dating similar abusive partners with narcissistic traits. One of my clients was trapped in a romantic relationship with a man with such traits. In the surface, her boyfriend took care of her in every details of her life. For instance, he accompanied her to …
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