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The Shrink’s Links: The Enneagram
Bringing you the best of mental health every week. If you were intrigued by my last post, Nine kinds of madness and the hole in the middle of it all, then you’ll love learning about The Enneagram. Enneagram is the … Continue reading
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Tagged character traits, enneagram, mental health, personality
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Nine kinds of madness and the hole in the middle of it all
In the middle of everything, there’s this deep, dark, depressing hole. It’s a chasm, really, and when you fall in, sometimes there’s no climbing out. When we call it anything at all, we often call it death, brokenness, or despair. … Continue reading
Posted in Stop the Madness, The Self
Tagged character traits, enneagram, existentialism, mental health, personality
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The Shrink’s Links: Still I Rise
Bringing you the best of mental health and relationship articles on the internet. Today’s link from the shrink is: Still I Rise Feeling oppressed? Recite this poem to yourself and you’ll feel ready to take it on, anyway. Good for … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Anger, Anxiety, Depression, Favorite quotes, Grief, Humor, Loss, Relationships, Stress, The Self, The Shrink's Links, The Workplace, Trauma
Tagged Depression, mental health
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Some Things You May Not Know about Your Self, Part 2
Peeling the Onion When you meet someone for the first time, you’re generally on your best behavior. You will present the most polite, least objectionable version of yourself that you can come up with. This is called the public face, … Continue reading
Some Things You May Not Know About Your Self: You never really know yourself until you die
The younger a person is, I have found, the more they think they know themselves. They can be heard, saying things like, “I’m not like this, I’m like that… I never… I always… my personality is…” They limit themselves this … Continue reading
Multiple
There aren’t many mental illnesses that therapists are accused of creating, but dissociative identity disorder, or multiple personality disorder, as it officially used to be known, is one of them. It may be the only one. Blaming people for creating … Continue reading
