“It doesn’t matter what I do for her; it’s never enough.” “I bought my Mom a beautiful gift for her birthday, but she took it back. She always takes my presents back. What’s with that?” “I hate Mother’s Day. I can never get it right.” “My mother’s feelings are forever being hurt. Why doesn’t she appreciate how hard I try?” Source: Iakov Filimonov/Shutterstock Guilt-provoking mothers are everywhere. If you have one, you may react in a number of different, common ways, such as with anger, frustration, sadness, hurt, and guilt. If you feel guilty about not being "good enough" to your mother, or angry at her for “making” you feel guilty, chances are that your mother actually feels guilty, too. While she may not show it directly, psychoanalysts have suggested over the years that guilt-provokers are often guilt-sufferers … [Read more...] about 5 Ways to Deal With a Guilt-Tripping Mother
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What to do when your Child is Scatterbrained
When I first heard of the proposed new childhood diagnosis of "Sluggish cognitive Tempo Disorder," I thought it was an April Fools Day joke and I wrote a Psychology Today blog asking this question. New York Times reporter Alan Schwarz soon disillusioned me. The proponents of the new disorder were some very serious people, he assured me, and this purported new disorder is no joke. Is Sluggish Cgognitve Tempo Disorder a Joke? In today's Daily Beast a pediatrician who writes under the name Russell Saunders wonders the same thing. Is this a joke? Taking a similar tongue-in-cheek approach as I did to this purported new "disorder", Suanders admits that he himself has the disorder, though up until now, he simply considered himself "scatter-brained," not mentally ill. As a kid he often turned in his assignments late, and even today he tends to forget about doing his paperwork on time. Suanders concludes that not every deviation from normal childhood is a mental disorder, though many doctors … [Read more...] about What to do when your Child is Scatterbrained