Author: trishandersonlcpc@yahoo.com

I've been a psychotherapist for over 20 years. I specialize in sexual abuse and other types of physical and emotional trauma. I've been inspired by the growth and courage I've witnessed in my clients. I'm grateful to have had the opportunity to do this work in the world. I'm now doing video counseling for those who reside in Illinois.

Coping with a Life-Threatening Illness or Serious Health Event

A diagnosis of cancer, heart disease, or other serious illness can be devastating. But there are ways to cope with the emotional distress and preserve your quality of life.

Authors: Lawrence Robinson, Jeanne Segal, Ph.D., and Melinda Smith, M.A.

Last updated: September 2020

Coping with a Life-Threatening Illness or Serious Health Event

How to Identify and Deal with Gaslighting

Gaslighting can cause intense self-doubt, no matter who’s doing it. How can you respond to this behavior?

Last medically reviewed on June 1, 2021

https://psychcentral.com/blog/how-to-identify-and-deal-with-gaslighting?slot_pos=article_1&utm_source=Sailthru%20Email&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=weekly&utm_content=2021-06-16&apid=25587128&rvid=beca30363447001f01e082de68750e216f2f0b9fe97432af84027afd2410ecfc

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents – Unabridged

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

By Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD (Author), Marguerite Gavin (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher)

Audible.com Release Date May 10, 2016 From Amazon.com: “In this breakthrough book, clinical psychologist Lindsay Gibson exposes the destructive nature of parents who are emotionally immature or unavailable. You will see how these parents create a sense of neglect and discover ways to heal from the pain and confusion caused by your childhood. By freeing yourself from your parents’ emotional immaturity, you can recover your true nature, control how you react to them, and avoid disappointment. Finally, you’ll learn how to create positive new relationships so you can build a better life.”

Surviving a Borderline Parent: How to Heal Your Childhood Wounds and Build Trust, Boundaries, and Self-Esteem

Surviving a Borderline Parent: How to Heal Your Childhood Wounds and Build Trust, Boundaries, and Self-Esteem by [Kimberlee Roth]

by Kimberlee Roth &Freda Friedman, Ph.D., LCSW. (2004)

From Amazon.com: “Surviving a Borderline Parent is the first step-by-step guide for adult children of parents with borderline personality disorder.

Between 6 and 10 million people in the US suffer from borderline personality disorder. This book teaches adult children how to overcome the devastating effects of growing up with a parent who suffers from BPD.

Although relatively common, borderline personality disorder (BPD) is often overlooked or misdiagnosed by therapists and clinicians and denied by those who suffer from it.

Symptoms of this problem include unpredictability, violence and uncontrollable anger, deep depression and self-abuse. Parents with BPD are often unable to provide for the basic physical and emotional needs of their children. In an ironic and painful role reversal, BPD parents can actually raise children to be their caretakers. They may burden even very young children with adult responsibilities.

If you were raised by a BPD parent, your childhood was a volatile and painful time. This book, the first written specifically for children of borderline parents, offers step-by-step guidance to understanding and overcoming the lasting effects of being raised by a person suffering from this disorder. Discover specific coping strategies for dealing with issues common to children of borderline parents: low self-esteem, lack of trust, guilt, and hypersensitivity. Make the major decision whether to confront your parent about his or her condition.”

Daughters of Madness: Growing Up and Older with a Mentally Ill Mother (Women’s Psychology) Annotated Edition

By Susan L. Nathiel, Ph.D. (2007)

From Amazon.com: “June was 9 years old when she came home from school and her schizophrenic mother met her at the door, angrily demanding to know, Who the hell are you? What are you doing in my house? Tess’s mother would wait outside church, then scream at family friends as they emerged, accusing them of spying and plotting to kill her. Five-year-old Tess and her 7-year-old brother would cry and beg their mother to take them home as onlookers stared. These are just two of the stories among dozens gathered for this book. The children, now adults, grew up with mentally ill mothers at a time when mental illness was even more stigmatizing than it is today. They are what Nathiel calls the daughters of madness, and their young lives were lived on shaky ground. Telling someone that there’s mental illness in her family, and watching the reaction is not for the faint-hearted, the therapist says, quoting another’s research. Nathiel adds, Telling them it is your mother who’s mentally ill certainly ups the ante. A veteran therapist with 35 years experience, Nathiel takes us into this traumatic world―each of her chanpters covering a major developmental period for the daughter of a mentally ill mother―and then explains how these now-adult daughters faced and coped with their mothers’ illness.

While the stories of these daughters are central to the book, Nathiel also offers her professional insights into exactly how maternal impairment affects infants, children, and adolescents. Women, significantly more than men, are often diagnosed with serious mental illness after they become parents. So what effect does a mentally ill mother have on a growing child, teenager or adult daughter, who looks to her not only for the deepest and most abiding love, but also a sense of what the world is all about? Nathiel also makes accessible the latest research on interpersonal neurobiology, attachment, and the way a child’s brain and mind develop in the contest of that relationship.”