How to Deal with Emotionally Explosive People
In the previous chapter we learnedthat depressed people don’t get much pleasure out of life because of a deficiency of transmitt ...
“That’s ridiculous. You look fine.” “If you like fat.” “You’re not fat.” You can’t talk depressed people into feeling better. Do ...
The Psychology of Depression ❧ 173 A frequent comment to depressed people is: “Do it for yourself, not for me.” This is not usef ...
When the psychiatrist suggests that Randy should go into the hos- pital for electrotherapy, his wife hits bottom. From his first ...
months before. Sometimes we’d try to stump each other with trivia questions. Devious doctors can only take it so far. The emotio ...
crying all the way, tired from not sleeping, and feeling like you just can’t go on. After that you have to figure out who you ar ...
needs is to sort out are her mixed memories of her mother, but that hurts too much. She feels so badly about herself every time ...
help the person feel better. If there’s nothing we can do to make the sit- uation better, we feel like crying ourselves. Which i ...
At first, you may not notice that the wrong person is talking. When you do notice, shift the attention back immediately; say: “T ...
run to is more pain. This time you have two stars to guide you. First, that feeling good is ultimately based not on what happens ...
The next lesson is more subtle. Sometimes it hurts too much to do what it takes to get better, but that’s not the only reason th ...
“ And I should have been a better husband,” Alonzo chimes in. * * * “My depression is my own damn fault,” Rachel says. * * * “I’ ...
They’re both there, always. Guilt and resentment are not separate—they’re two sides of the same feeling. One cannot exist withou ...
she’s just acting upon them. She feels too unworthy to come out and ask for your time, so she unconsciously relies on a threat t ...
known as being manipulatedis to respond to what people are doing with- out trying to explain to them what they’re doing. BE CLEA ...
If you’re always available, you become an emotional landfill where she can go to dump her loads of distress. If you’re not there ...
Stabilized, however, is not cured. While taking medication, Carol still followed her old patterns of cheerful selflessness. She ...
match or the gasoline causes the blast? Disorders erupt at points of phys- iological or psychological weakness. Faulty brains an ...
treatment drags action to the front of the line, then demonstrates with indisputable numbers how much better you feel if you hav ...
glasses, and lived happily ever after. Unfortunately, therapy doesn’t work that way. Not even on television. Rachel and I still ...
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