‘When I’m dead, you’ll be all alone because your father doesn’t want you. Just remember that and treat me nicely.’ Thus Ariel Leve quotes her bohemian poet mother in her memoir about their difficult relationship, An Abbreviated Life. In Her Last Death, writer Susanna Sonnenberg gets a call to say her mother…
Many people are affected by narcissism, either by a parent or parents or by a loved one such as a spouse, sibling or friend. Being caught up in the web of a narcissist can leave a person broken, empty, drained, feelings of suicide, feelings of insanity. Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)…
Codependence is a form of Delayed Stress Syndrome. Instead of blood and death (although some do experience blood and death literally), what happened to us as children was spiritual death and emotional maiming, mental torture and physical violation. We were forced to grow up denying the reality of what was…
Mental health affects an estimated 450 million people world wide, yet despite this figure many still feel ashamed to seek diagnosis and support. Current figures state that each year in Britain an estimated 1 in 4 adults will experience at least one diagnosable mental health problem, though only 230 of…