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+NOT HAVING A PARTICULARLY CHIPPER DAY

Posted in borderline mother, Trauma and Its Consequences, tagged abuse, anxiety disorders, attachment disorder, borderline mother, borderline personality disorder, brain development, child abuse, child abuse prevention, depression, disorganized disoriented insecure attachment, dissociation, dissociative identity disorder, empathy disorder, maltreatment, mental illness, posttraumatic stress disorder, PTSD, trauma, trauma bond, trauma memory, triggers, violence on January 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Not having a chipper day, but here are links to some pieces of my early life…..

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+CAN EARLY INFANT-CHILD MALTREATMENT TURN OFF THE COMPASSION SWITCH?

Posted in borderline mother, Trauma and Its Consequences, tagged abuse, anxiety disorders, attachment disorder, borderline mother, borderline personality disorder, brain development, child abuse, child abuse prevention, depression, disorganized disoriented insecure attachment, empathy disorder, infant abuse, mean mother, mental illness, posttraumatic stress disorder, PTSD, trauma memory, triggers on January 30, 2010 | 4 Comments »

My mother’s body-brain was not wired correctly for compassion. That’s why she could do what she did to me. I believe the newest research will begin to show how a vagal nerve-immune system reaction to early abuse might turn the compassion switch OFF.

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+A LONG, THOUGHTFUL LOOK AT VERBAL ABUSE AS MALIGNANT TEASING

Posted in adult attachment disorders, borderline mother, Borderline Personality Disorder, Child Abuse, Depression, Dissociation, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Trauma and Its Consequences, tagged abuse, anxiety disorders, attachment disorder, borderline mother, borderline personality disorder, brain development, child abuse prevention, depression, disorganized disoriented insecure attachment, dissociation, dissociative identity disorder, empathy disorder, infant abuse, malevolent world, mental illness, neglect, parallel play, theory of mind, trauma memory, triggers, verbal abuse, witness abuse on January 29, 2010 | 3 Comments »

My mother’s verbal abuse of me was yet another sign of the malignant turn her infant-child brain-mind took in her early development. And what a powerful sign it was.

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+KELTNER, ARE YOU LYING? PEOPLE ARE BORN TO CHOOSE, NOT TO BE GOOD

Posted in borderline mother, Trauma and Its Consequences, tagged abuse, anxiety disorders, attachment disorder, borderline mother, borderline personality disorder, brain development, child abuse, child abuse prevention, depression, disorganized disoriented insecure attachment, empathy disorder, infant abuse, mental illness, posttraumatic stress disorder, PTSD, trauma memory, triggers on January 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Dare I say it? Keltner is lying. Humans are not “Born to Be Good” as his book portrays. We are born to be able to make choices.

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+CHILD ABUSE: IN THE ABSENCE OF THE PRESENCE OF GOODNESS

Posted in borderline mother, Trauma and Its Consequences, tagged abuse, anxiety disorders, attachment disorder, borderline mother, borderline personality disorder, brain development, child abuse, child abuse prevention, depression, disorganized disoriented insecure attachment, dissociation, dissociative identity disorder, empathy disorder, infant abuse, mental illness, posttraumatic stress disorder, PTSD, violence on January 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Teasing is prosocial. Child abuse is not. The absence of teasing is just another sign that goodness is as missing in a child-abusing parent as the badness is not.

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+VERBAL ABUSE – CAN I HEAL MY INFANT MUSICAL BRAIN?

Posted in borderline mother, Trauma and Its Consequences, tagged abuse, anxiety disorders, attachment disorder, borderline mother, borderline personality disorder, brain development, child abuse, child abuse prevention, depression, disorganized disoriented insecure attachment, dissociation, dissociative identity disorder, empathy disorder, infant abuse, language development, malevolent world, music therapy, posttraumatic stress disorder, PTSD, trauma bond, trauma memory, triggers, witness abuse on January 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »

An infant first hears the song of its mother’s music and feels the movement of its mother’s dance a long, long time before that infant begins to understand words. Can we heal our abused infant musical brain?

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+WHAT IS LONELY? FEELING SO ALONE ALONE

Posted in borderline mother, Trauma and Its Consequences, tagged abuse, anxiety disorders, attachment disorder, borderline mother, borderline personality disorder, brain development, child abuse, child abuse prevention, depression, disorganized disoriented insecure attachment, infant abuse, maltreatment, mean mother, mental illness, posttraumatic stress disorder, PTSD, trauma memory, triggers on January 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I want to learn more about my aloneness because I have no more hope that it is ever truly going to leave me in this lifetime. I turned to one particular July 1987 night for part of an answer, and the year that night belonged to….

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+THE ‘TERROR-ABLE’ CONSEQUENCES OF INFANT-CHILDHOOD VERBAL ABUSE

Posted in borderline mother, Trauma and Its Consequences, tagged abuse, anxiety disorders, attachment disorder, borderline mother, borderline personality disorder, brain development, child abuse, child abuse prevention, depression, disorganized disoriented insecure attachment, dissociation, dissociative identity disorder, empathy disorder, infant abuse, mental illness, posttraumatic stress disorder, PTSD, trauma, verbal abuse, violence, witness abuse on January 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Being victim to verbal abuse — even hearing parents verbally abusing one another — is extremely damaging to children. Here I present links, information, and a beginning introduction to the topic of infant-child verbal abuse damage.

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+THE TOPIC OF TEASING: TOO HARD TO CONSIDER?

Posted in borderline mother, Trauma and Its Consequences, tagged abuse, adult insecure attachment disorder, attachment disorder, borderline mother, borderline personality disorder, bpd, child abuse prevention, depression, disorganized disoriented insecure attachment, dissociation, dissociative identity disorder, empathy disorder, healing, infant abuse, malevolent world, mean mother, mental illness, posttraumatic stress disorder, PTSD, trauma memory, triggers, witness abuse on January 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

What terrifies me today so badly about the topic of teasing? Right not I don’t know. I’m too scared to find out.

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+IN THE PRESENCE OF LAUGHTER WE ARE SAFE, SECURE AND FREE

Posted in borderline mother, Trauma and Its Consequences, tagged abuse, adult insecure atachment, anxiety disorders, attachment disorder, borderline mother, borderline personality disorder, bpd, brain development, child abuse, child abuse prevention, depression, disorganized disoriented insecure attachment, dissociation, dissociative identity disorder, healing, infant abuse, mental illness, posttraumatic stress disorder, PTSD, rad, reactive attachment disorder, trauma, triggers, violence, witness abuse on January 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

In the presence of laughter we are most present in the present because in its embrace we are most completely safe, secure and free.

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Archive for January, 2010

+NOT HAVING A PARTICULARLY CHIPPER DAY

+CAN EARLY INFANT-CHILD MALTREATMENT TURN OFF THE COMPASSION SWITCH?

+A LONG, THOUGHTFUL LOOK AT VERBAL ABUSE AS MALIGNANT TEASING

+KELTNER, ARE YOU LYING? PEOPLE ARE BORN TO CHOOSE, NOT TO BE GOOD

+CHILD ABUSE: IN THE ABSENCE OF THE PRESENCE OF GOODNESS

+VERBAL ABUSE – CAN I HEAL MY INFANT MUSICAL BRAIN?

+WHAT IS LONELY? FEELING SO ALONE ALONE

+THE ‘TERROR-ABLE’ CONSEQUENCES OF INFANT-CHILDHOOD VERBAL ABUSE

+THE TOPIC OF TEASING: TOO HARD TO CONSIDER?

+IN THE PRESENCE OF LAUGHTER WE ARE SAFE, SECURE AND FREE

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