13 Responses (One Discussion Thread) to “Character Disturbance: Too Much Anxiety, or Too Little?”

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   Sheila

   11

   23rd October 2008

   This is interesting topic. I just got a report back from a Neuropsychologist telling me he could not think of any type of work I could do that would not cause me too much stress.

   I find it hard to do when order of things change. An example of this is I help out on a horse ranch. When it was time to bring in the horses, the other worker started sending them to the barn in a different order than I was use to. I know the horses and where they go in the barn, but when they came at different order, I couldn’t put them in right stalls. Then they all started fighting so other worker had to come and help.

   I have trouble that increases in communication when stress is increased in small amount; this is both speech and writing. This also increases headaches all the time. My history is head injury, had skull fracture from left parietal to right occipital and in coma for many days. This was over 30 years ago, but because of more head injuries including a beating this year. I now have trouble with much more and stress is a big enemy now.

   I even have a friend I email many times; I use to work with her about 5 years ago. Both of us Nurses, she still works, I cannot anymore. Anyhow she made a comment to me in her email and asked why sometimes my writing is grammatically clear and other times it is not. Is same with speech I know it comes out wrong but it is hard to make it right.

   This is how stress affects me now, I have no other explanation.
2. 

   Zoe

   12

   3rd May 2009

   “It’s also noteworthy that whether a fear is conscious and specific (i.e., a phobia) or whether it is unconscious or unidentified, research indicates that there is a common way to get rid of it: exposure.” Dr. Simon
   I believe this is the reason neurotics come into contact with disturbed personalities. Our psyche is on the prowl for situations that will force us into contact with our worst fears, giving us plenty of opportunity (anyone who has been in a relationship with a disturbed character knows just how abundant the opportunities are!!!) to confront our fears and face them down. As a neurotic, you cannot even leave the situation, much less change it, unless a sense of selfworth is developed in the process.
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     Patricia Sella

     12.1

     7th June 2009

     How did you arrive at that idea?

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