The magical thinking about suicide is that it can result in a relief from one’s pain.
Big feelings and little feelings
Of course big feelings do occur in childhood, sometimes many of them occur and many are not dealt with or resolved as the child cannot articulate its need to do so
Teenage conventional thinking
Recent research on what teenagers see as, “What makes a good person”. They were asked to rate the qualities of people who were good people. This indicates teenagers are a conventional group of people in these views. But this seems incongruent as the teenage stage is often an angry stage of storm and stress. The …
Wall of trivia
The wall of trivia allows for two people to keep an emotional distance from each other.
Treatment of the passive aggressive personality
Provide lots of positive stokes to the PA and work on how they may filter the strokes.