Parentification has been referred to as an INVISIBLE childhood trauma. One study of 783 university students into the links between parentification and later adult wellness showed those who experienced parentification to have an increased risk of depression, anxiety, eating disorders …
Tag: Depression
How To Be With Suffering
Have you ever been in distress and the person you share your distress with also becomes distressed and you end up wishing you had not said anything? I think there is an art to being with suffering. I think it …
The Positive Seeds
Thich Nhat Hanh – No Mud, no Lotus. Most spiritual teachers, if you listen long enough, will start to talk about the mind as having ‘seeds’. All the ‘seeds’ in the mind have a different vibration to them. There might …
Letting Go
Thich Nhat Hanh – No Mud, no Lotus. Letting go is Thich Nhat Hanh’s first principle for transforming suffering. Letting go of attachments. He tells a story of a wealthy person who lived in a mansion and was afraid behind …
Does Depression Lead to Loneliness or Does Loneliness Lead to Depression?
Does depression lead to loneliness or does loneliness lead to depression? This was Cacioppo’s question in the early 2000’s. In one of many studies he took 135 lonely people, divided them into group A and group B and asked them …