Chapter 6. What the Psychologist Notices in Addiction Before the Person Is Ready to Admit It.
A man comes to see a psychologist because his wife has threatened to leave him. He says this almost immediately, before he has properly settled into the chair. He explains that they have been arguing for months, that she has become suspicious of everything he does, and that lately she seems to be looking for […]
When You Can’t Let Go: The Psychology of Emotional Stuckness After a Relationship Ends.
The strange thing about this kind of being stuck is that it doesn’t always look like loss.Sometimes it looks like calm. Almost normality. Even functionality. You work. You talk. You joke.On the outside, everything seems assembled. And that’s exactly what’s unsettling.Because if everything is so “fine,” where does this background heaviness come from — the […]
Waiting for Life to Begin: The Psychology of Living in “Later” Mode.
Living in waiting mode almost always looks reasonable. Even convincing. Now is not the right time. First this needs to be finished, that needs to be endured, something else needs to heal or stabilize. Later. A bit later. And inside that “later” there is a strange comfort, as if life already exists somewhere ahead, carefully […]
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