Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder
Physiological stress, then, is the link between personality traits and disease. Certain traits—otherwise known as coping styles—magnify the risk for illness by increasing the likelihood of chronic stress. Common to them all is a diminished capacity for emotional communication. Emotional experiences are translated into potentially damaging biologica
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Young children don’t have the cognitive development to understand that parental misbehavior and failings have nothing to do with them. In general, the earlier the touch deprivation, the more devastating it is.
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Parents abandon their children when they fail to praise or recognize a child’s true effort to please the parent. Instead most parents are quick to criticize and correct a child’s behavior but rarely find time to praise the child or to build confidence for good choices. As a result, most adult children have a critical parent inside. The critical, in
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