Posted by NikkiT2 on May 10, 2001, at 11:12:58
In reply to thanks Nikki, posted by mila on May 10, 2001, at 6:56:46
oooh, Regents college is quite near me!!!
As strange as it may seem, alot fo the criteria from schizotypal do match me.. I have just beocme so adept at hiding it all, it second nature not to reveal whats really going on inside etc... One day I would love to just open my mouth and all this crap in my brain to come flooding out.. maybe then I can start from scratch and not be struggling for every breath as I seem to be now a days.
Toronto is so lovely... I had a wonderful holiday visiting relatives there and really hope one day to make it back again... And maybe even over come my fear of heights and see the views from the upper bit in the CN tower (went to the middle bit which was fun!)!! I did go up to the higher bit, but sat outside the lift crying with fear while my mum and elderly great aunt wandered around fine!!!
Enjoy spring!!
nikki xxxx
> Nikki,
> thanks for answering.
> wow, severe shizotypal, how odd can you be. I would never guess judging from your posts. Do you agree with the diagnosis yourself? Do you know the criteria? (socially isolated, suspicioussness, odd beliefs, ideas of reference, magical thinking, illusions, paranoid thoughts, little emotional expression, passive and unengaged, hypersensitive to critisicm, etc.) Do you have relatives with schizophrenia?
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> There is a book about successful therapy with a patient who had been labeled 'schizoid'. Have you read it? It is written by both therapist and patient: Every Day Gets a Little Closer, by Irv Yalom and Ginny Elkin. If you like it, or recognize yourself in it, you can try existential counselling/therapy. Luckily for you, England is the only place in the world where they have a school specifically for training this kind of therapists.
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> you can contact Dr.Ernesto Spinelli at School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, Regent's College, London, and ask for referral. Spinelli describes his work in Tales of Un-knowing (1997). I think that American existential therapists have a goal of changing the person relying on existent resources and incorporation some new ones, while their British colleagues believe it is impossible, and strive for clarification and confrontation of the problems of life relying on resources already available to the person.
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> this morning in Toronto is also beautiful, promises a gorgeous spring day.
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> love
> mila
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