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Used of mentally ill and neurotic women, particularly single women and spinsters who hoard cats. [23] Cretin [citation needed] Cripple "A person with a physical or mobility impairment". Its shortened form ("crip") has been reclaimed by some people with disabilities as a positive identity. [6] [7] [17] [24] Confined to a wheelchair
Self-talk can be soothing. "It can help you gather your thoughts," says Amy Morin, LCSW, a psychotherapist and the author of 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do. "You speak slower than you ...
Here are some of Wright's suggestions for what to say. For how things feel: “You feel so incredible against me." For how things look: "You look unbelievably hot right now." ... The Best Women ...
In 1975 Judi Chamberlin coined the term mentalism in a book chapter of Women Look at Psychiatry. [6] The term became more widely known when she used it in 1978 in her book On Our Own: Patient Controlled Alternatives to the Mental Health System, which for some time became the standard text of the psychiatric survivor movement in the US.
Sadistic personality disorder is an obsolete term for a proposed personality disorder defined by a pervasive pattern of sadistic and cruel behavior. People who fitted this diagnosis were thought to have a desire to control others and to have accomplished this through use of physical or emotional violence.
Mental strength is just like any other skill: It takes time to develop. In her book "13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do," psychotherapist Amy Morin writes that your genetics, personality ...
Female hysteria was once a common medical diagnosis for women. It was described as exhibiting a wide array of symptoms, including anxiety, shortness of breath, fainting, nervousness, exaggerated and impulsive sexual desire, insomnia, fluid retention, heaviness in the abdomen, irritability, loss of appetite for food or sex, sexually impulsive behavior, and a "tendency to cause trouble for ...
Psychological abuse, often known as emotional abuse or mental abuse or psychological violence or non-physical abuse, is a form of abuse characterized by a person subjecting or exposing another person to a behavior that may result in psychological trauma, including anxiety, chronic depression, clinical depression or post-traumatic stress disorder amongst other psychological problems.