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Feeling Feelings, Being Human
Published in Joi Andreoli, The Recovery Cycle, 2023
In recovery we begin to feel a lot of feelings. With so many new feelings (because of new sober experiences), maybe you’ve tried to avoid uncomfortable feelings, or refrained from expressing them because you judge them in some way. Or, maybe you think you ought to be more mature about all your feelings. Maybe you don’t express your joy or pain, for whatever reason. Perhaps you stop yourself from crying, or getting angry, or laughing too loud. Or possibly, you feel so removed from feelings you don’t even know what they are—or how you feel—and you want a definition you can understand.
The meaning of developmental theories for traumatised children
Published in Panos Vostanis, Helping Children and Young People Who Experience Trauma, 2021
I remember seeing a teenage girl who could hold a reasonable conversation, before suddenly snapping and walking out, spitting or shouting – or hitting out in the case of her peers or carers. It was sad that she had already spent a considerable time in custodial settings. Even before hearing of her upbringing in an abusive family, I could imagine her walking around the house as a toddler and, for exactly the same behaviour, sometimes being ignored, on rare occasions being smiled at, and at other times being hit violently without any warning or explanation. This little girl’s working model of a dangerous world was much of confusion and contradictions. Whichever way she turned might prove hurtful. Crying could lead to more pain. The lack of coherent responses led to a disorganised or disoriented pattern of attachment, which was relatively recently described by Mary Main.
Cry and response
Published in Anthony Korner, Communicative Exchange, Psychotherapy and the Resonant Self, 2020
While crying is expressive and may provide relief, prolonged crying can be exhausting and be associated with physiological strain (Pinyerd, 1994; Cardoso & Sabbatini, 2002). In infancy cries come to have a range of meanings and are recognized as signs of vigour as well as distress (Cross, 2009). Infants learn quickly that crying gets attention (Cardoso & Sabbatini, 2002). Cries can be aversive to carers, particularly those not well prepared for the parenting role. They may stimulate abusive behaviours (LaGasse et al., 2005). The cry is always occurring in a unique context, unconsciously symbolized in that space. It needs to be understood as a complex relational phenomenon, not as something occurring in isolation: “Man is not merely the symbol-using animal. He is constituted of symbols, and he symbolizes because that is his nature, not because he is driven” (Levenson, 2017).
Shaken Baby Syndrome Education for Mothers Awaiting Appointments in Rural OB/GYN Office
Published in Comprehensive Child and Adolescent Nursing, 2023
Ann W. Lambert, Chih-Hsuan Wang, Claire Thompson, Adelia Grabowsky
Crying that is prolonged, excessive, inconsolable, and unpredictable is extremely frustrating to caregivers and commonly precipitates bouts of infant shaking to stop the crying. Parents and other caregivers often assume something is wrong with themselves, or the infant. On the contrary, crying is a developmentally normal and appropriate phenomenon that follows predictable patterns in the first several months of life. Organic causes of excessive crying have been identified in less than 5% of the cases (Barr, 2012). According to Barr, the amount of crying per day increases weekly from birth, peaks in the second month, and then declines steadily and stabilizes by the fourth or fifth month of life. There appears to be a correlation between the normal crying curve and peak incidence of SBS/ABT, with trauma incidence occurring around the same time as the number of daily crying peaks (Runyan et al., 2009). At times, the crying is resistant to caregiver attempts to soothe the infant, and the infant may even appear to be in pain even if he is not. Crying may also be clustered in the late afternoon and early evening. The peak incidence of normal crying appears to coincide with the peak age incidence of SBS/AHT (Barr et al., 2006; Lee et al., 2007); suggesting that crying is a trigger for shaking.
Providing Psychological Support for the Junior to Senior Transition in Professional Female Football: An Individual Case Study
Published in Journal of Sport Psychology in Action, 2022
Michael McGreary, Robert Morris
Session two again adopted the Socratic questioning style and aimed to further expand and explore the key areas of focus from session one (such as promotion of psychological flexibility). To start session two, the client reported she had stopped doing extra fitness sessions during her free time and used this time to get up to date with university work. She had described the last week as feeling better, less drained, and more relaxed when at home. The client proceeded to share how she has been struggling with the training session in terms of performing to level she expects of herself, at which point, the client became visibly upset and broke down into tears. My initial reaction was panic, I had never had an athlete cry during a session before. I just wanted to press pause, ring my supervisor and ask for help. Tod and Bond (2010) highlighted how neophyte practitioners often are dependent on guidance from their supervisors. I attempted to manage my own emotions, and conscious that crying is often therapeutic, I resisted trying to stop her, despite my discomfort. At this time, I also felt an overwhelming emotional experience, an almost innate response to comfort. The emotional outpour appeared to have a cathartic effect; the athlete joked feeling like a weight had been lifted off her shoulders. Under the right circumstances, receiving social support or arriving at a resolution to the event that cause the crying episode, crying can indeed by a cathartic experience. When she had regained her composure, we explored why she had been feeling this way.
Fathers Don’t Cry: On Gender, Kinship, and the Death Drive
Published in Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2020
You would expect to hear about tears in his 1917 “Mourning and Melancholia,” but even in that paper they do not appear. The fathers of psychoanalysis were not keen on crying as a nonsymptomatic aspect of adult living. Yet we all have in our offices a box of tissues where the patient can easily reach it. People cry. Moreover, we often think of crying as an achievement—one being impelled by something emerging from within, or by something unfolding in the present of the therapeutic relationship, which usually happen together. In my experience, women do cry more. But to put it simply, and anticipate one of the main points of this article, I think it is because they’re allowed to. Men do cry. But more often they tend to express whatever it is that tears do in other ways, like saying “I think about dying every day.”