Posted by psych chat on September 15, 2009, at 0:32:36
Psychiatric drugs don't seem to be helping as much anymore. Could it be that lack of motivation - and the feeling of being 'stuck' could be caused by childhood patterns of attachment? I'm thinking - could this be a pattern that manifests as ADD symptoms later in life for those of us who did not have ADD symptoms during childhood? Momentary immobility-does this carry on through adulthood or re-emerge after the event of new trauma?
"However, when even defensive efforts are overwhelmed by the disruptive emotions resulting from unreliable caregiving, we are in the realm of disorganized attachment (Main, 1995, 1999): the only way both self and relationship can be maintained is through momentary immobility: the individual can neither feel (dissociation) nor deal (paralysis)."
If this is the case, are drugs the answer, as opposed to therapy? Perhaps both...
-----------------------
http://www.trauma-pages.com/a/fosha-03.php
The chronic reliance on defenses against emotional experience instituted to compensate for these lapses in the caregiver's affect-regulatory capacities produces adaptations which are categorized by the attachment classifications, that have been translated into affective functional strategies (Fosha, 2000b). Whereas secure attachment involves the capacity to feel and deal without the need to resort to defense mechanisms, the two types of organized insecure attachment are the result of defensive strategies: the strategy of dealing but not feeling in avoidant attachment, and the strategy of feeling (and reeling), but not dealing in resistant/ambivalent attachment. However, when even defensive efforts are overwhelmed by the disruptive emotions resulting from unreliable caregiving, we are in the realm of disorganized attachment (Main, 1995, 1999): the only way both self and relationship can be maintained is through momentary immobility: the individual can neither feel (dissociation) nor deal (paralysis).
poster:psych chat
thread:917149
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/psycho/20090907/msgs/917149.html