Posted by cricket on August 18, 2005, at 8:26:24
In reply to Re: Terrible Session » cricket, posted by alexandra_k on August 17, 2005, at 20:09:44
> What did he say about attachment?
Well, first of all, it's definitely not one of my favorite topics and one he seems to go back to.
I think it's fairly common stuff.
When a mammal is not responded too, she starts to cry louder and if no response, exhaustion/depression sets in and eventually the cry turns into a shriek and then learned helplessness/hopelessness sets in.
Supposedly that's where I am - the learned helplessness stage, which I'm not sure what that means - but it's not a pretty picture that's for sure.
Then he also goes on that there's hope for me because I once did have an attachment to my grandmother even though I was very young and I can't really remember and even though she wasn't exactly the most sane person in the world. He says this so much with so many qualifiers that I think that most of the time he's trying to convince himself that there is hope for me. Because he also adds that if I didn't have that grandmother connection, there really wouldn't be any hope.
In fact, I'm not sure what he's trying to accomplish with all this attachment stuff (besides convince himself) and all it does for me is make me suicidal.
I guess I should tell him that :-(
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