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Do you want to change emotional stress, toxic relationships or limiting beliefs?
Can you Cope with Change?
Stress happens. Stress happens every day. Stress is a
normal part of life. And stress may interfere with study, work, friendships
and family. Many people express their reactions to stress as behavioral problems,
psychosomatic or physical disease symptoms, or learning disorders.
We help motivated adults deal with simple stress following a
simple pattern:
- Decide to avoid or reduce a source
of stress
- Dissolve anger or fear that contributes
to stress
- Search for options to avoid or reduce the stressors
- Find an option that controls, removes or
reduces a stressor
- Search for resources that enable you to follow through and
change it
Few people like stress, but most people can adjust to stressful events and
move on. And some get stuck. If the stress causes people to split-off part of
themselves - those parts may not grow up, rather continuing to relive the
stressful event, rather like a needle on an old gramophone record. This can
continue for many years or until the stressful event is assimilated.
Following stress which sub-divided the personality, we can
help people find, recover and integrate the lost parts of themselves.
Help for Adjustment Disorders
Adjustment disorders differ to common, everyday stress and
emotional problems. If you lose a partner or a job and you may feel depressed. If you lost a partner or job
two years ago, and you are still depressed, then you may have a
systemic (relationship) problem.
You may experience some frustration, but you can solve most
problems with your own resources (which includes your ability to find other
resources). You explore options, trying one and another until you remove
the stressor or reduce its intensity. Your emotional maturity
might be defined in part as your ability to rapidly respond to
and control stress.
Some people cannot adjust to stress.
Perhaps you were never taught stress control; or the stressor is
too much for you to handle. An inability to resolve
stress may be called age regression,
immaturity, emotional incest, emotional trauma,
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or other
possibilities.
If you experienced high stress and
your symptoms impair your life, then
you may have an adjustment disorder. Important parts of your life may
include difficulties at school or work, social problems, legal difficulties,
relationship chaos or symptoms of disease .
What causes Adjustment Disorders (AD)
An adjustment disorder is an exaggerated emotional or
behavioral reaction to a stressful event or change. The
reaction usually occurs within a few months of the identified event or
change (although the unpleasant feelings may be dissociated or repressed for
years, only to explode later in life).
Stressful events that change the life of
a child, adolescent or immature adult include a family move, parental
separation, the loss of a family member, and the birth of a sibling.
Sometimes a parent's love can feel more confining than
freeing, more demanding than nurturing. Were you an "emotional partner" to a
parent? If so, you may be a victim of covert emotional incest.
We help motivated adults dissolve adjustment disorders and stress reactions.
As people vary in their experiences, temperament
and therefore in their ability to cope; and as stressors can vary in intensity,
duration and effect, we cannot accurately predict how many sessions might be
needed.
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Synonyms |
AD,
mental illness, PTSD, psychiatric disorder, non-psychotic disturbance,
sub-threshold disorders, sub-threshold syndromes, psychosocial
stressors, maladaptive reactions, stress disorders, suicide, suicidal
ideation, suicidal impulses, anxiety NOS, depression NOS, self-harm,
self-poisoning, psychopathology, stress reactions, relationship chaos,
self-sabotage |
Who is affected - and how?
These stress disorders occur equally in males
and females at all ages in all cultures. Symptoms of adjustment disorders in
younger children include tantrums and withdrawal. Adolescent symptoms may
include hyperactivity, while adults more often experience
depression.
In these disorders, the reaction to the stressor
seems to be exaggerated, and may significantly interfere with education,
work or family responsibilities.
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Most treatments of adjustment
disorders try to get rid of symptoms. We help people manage
the underlying emotional responses to relationship disappointments. |
Symptoms of Adjustment Disorders
The following are the three most common groups of symptoms
of adjustment disorders, roughly based on maturity. (Mixtures of symptoms
are common. A person who oscillates between two different symptom sets may
be expressing a systemic disorder called Identity Conflict.)
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Age Regression |
Age-regressed
adults act like children. In some
cultures, it is acceptable for a man to act childishly if he is
stressed or ill. This may not be acceptable in other cultures, and may
be unacceptable for women. |
1. Anxiety Symptoms (mostly children or age-regressed adults)
- Nervous, Worried, Afraid of change
- Afraid of separation from parents or partner
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Generalized Anxiety / Agoraphobia (extreme)
2. Behavioral Symptoms (mostly teenagers or age-regressed
adults)
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Hyperactivity and Attention Deficit Disorders (ADD
- ADHD)
- Preoccupied with violence &
gore (e.g. TV, computer games and cinema)
- Violates others rights (e.g. bullying, theft)
or societal rules (e.g. truancy, delinquency)
3. Depressive Symptoms (mostly adults)
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Depressed and withdrawn
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Melancholy, crying and tearfulness
- Expresses hopelessness and
helplessness
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Consult a physician about medical or psychiatric conditions. |
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