She may be psychologically wounded, suggests Peter K. Gerlach, who holds a master's degree in social work, in the article, «Perspective
on Fear of Abandonment,» on «Break the Cycle!»
EFT was developed in the 1980s by psychologists Sue Johnson and Les Greenberg to help couples caught in an unhappy cycle of misunderstanding based
on their fears of abandonment and rejection.Johnson identifies three types of dysfunctional attachment that develops when couples are in trouble:
Not exact matches
That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands
of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode
of fear I live in a rough area
of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out
of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence
of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling
of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart
of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal
fears which I have noticed my
fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I
fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm
on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots
of good information to be plundered loll
At Ms. Bourgeois's Brooklyn studio, the filmmakers Marion Cajori and Amei Wallach attend to her rambling, entrancing ruminations
on the archetype
of «the runaway girl»; the necessity
of silence; and the power
of fear and the primacy
of memory in her work —
of the mangled bodies
of World War I veterans,
of her mother twisting fabrics in a stream,
of abandonment,
of dreams.
A safe and secure attachment permits the patient to cultivate a healthy dependency
on the therapist without re-living the
fears of judgments and
abandonments that interfered with them depending
on caregivers who may or may not have been able to model and instruct what was needed.
Among «the deleterious effects
of parental child abduction
on the child victim» are «depression, loss
of community, loss
of stability, security and trust, excessive fearfulness, loneliness, anger, helplessness, disruption in identity formation and
fear of abandonment.»
This week
on Relationships 2.0 I will be interviewed by my colleague and friend Shawn T. Smith, PsyD about my new book, Love Me Don't Leave Me: Overcoming
Fear of Abandonment and Building Lasting, Loving Relationships.
Only when the
fear of rejection or
abandonment has been soothed will the cognitive skills come back
on - line.
The narcissistic - style personality,
on the other hand, has been able to develop a fragile psychological defense against the direct experience
of these core beliefs through a grandiose self - inflation in which the narcissistic - style personality entirely devalues the importance
of others as a means to assert self - superiority and suppress
fears of abandonment (i.e., «You're inadequate, I'm wonderful.
Relationships are based
on the fantasy
of the need for others for survival, excessive dependency, and a
fear of rejection and / or
abandonment.
«The conceptualization
of the core pathology
of BPD as stemming from a highly frightened, abused child who is left alone in a malevolent world, longing for safety and help but distrustful because
of fear of further abuse and
abandonment, is highly related to the model developed by Young (McGinn & Young, 1996)... Young elaborated
on an idea, in the 1980s introduced by Aaron Beck in clinical workshops (D.M. Clark, personal communication), that some pathological states
of patients with BPD are a sort
of regression into intense emotional states experienced as a child.
So they draw the child into the spousal conflict
on their «side» and induce the child's rejection
of you in order to reestablish their psychological defense against the experience
of primal self - inadequacy and to protect themselves from their terrible
fears of abandonment («I'm not the abandoned person — you are.
Their
fear of abandonment, combined with feelings
of emptiness and self - loathing, makes others feel like they're constantly walking
on eggshells.
For both the narcissistic and borderline personality structure, regulating their intense emotional distress originating from their core sense
of primal self - inadequacy and
fear of abandonment takes precedence over external restrictions, even the external restrictions placed
on them by truth and reality.
The Experiences in Close Relationships - Revised (ECR - R; Fraley et al. 2000) is a self - report measure with 36 items measuring adult romantic attachment across two subscales: attachment - related anxiety (
fear of abandonment and rejection) and attachment - related avoidance (
fear of closeness and discomfort with dependence
on others).
High scores
on the first subscale indicate a tendency to preoccupation, jealousy and
fear of abandonment, while high scores
on the second scale suggest uneasiness with intimacy.