Abandonment fears often stem from childhood loss, such as the loss of a parent through death or divorce, but they can also result from inadequate physical and emotional care.
Not exact matches
Ironically, painful feelings such as aloneness, emptiness, anxiety, sadness, jealousy,
fear, guilt and shame - feelings that we tend to see as problems unto themselves — are
often symptoms of a deeper root cause: physical, emotional and spiritual self -
abandonment.
Mothers with BPD, for instance, are characteristically volatile and have difficulty controlling intense, inappropriate anger that is
often precipitated by environmental changes and / or intense
abandonment fears (APA, 2000; Paris, 1999).
Some children have an insecure attachment to the allied parent, who is most
often the primary caretaker, and may
fear abandonment by that parent.
Feelings of
fear, anxiety,
abandonment, and rejection
often accompany these types of significant changes in a child's life.
Simply pursuing treatment with an attentive, empathic therapist can
often help soothe a person's
abandonment fears.