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    Carl Jung's The Red Book

    Jung is a challenge for everyone. Even professionals. However, the Red Book is his personal journal and it is absolutely fascinating to share the process by which he discovered and outlined his inner psychological workings. Concerning psychosis: Jung did NOT have a psychotic break. The...
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    Is Life Really Supposed To Be This Lonely

    All people have troubles with relationships. What appears to be "camaraderie" is often shared rituals (drinking or partying) or shared interests. It is much more important that you find meaning in your life....activities, interests, discoveries, and even obsessions, that energize you. There...
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    Is Asperger's hereditary?

    Read or listen to the book: NEUROTRIBES. it is an incredible review of the history of identification and "treatment" of Aspies in Europe and America from about 1925 to present. It is a wonderful piece of research by a science journalist connected to "Wired" magazine.
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    Is Asperger's hereditary?

    There is strong evidence that autism is genetic. There is even some discussion as to whether Neural-diversity can be traced to Neanderthal origins, making the aspie nervous system very, very old. Consider the sensitivities that aspie's display, and then put these qualities in a hunting culture...
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    Do you recognize if you're being "rude"?

    Social communication is hard for everyone, NT or ND. As a therapist I am amazed that we are not more curious about each other. Almost all social strategy is based on keeping control of the environment to either minimize threat, or maximize resources. Pure curiosity seems to be in short...
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    NT needing advice

    Although isolation and withdrawal from social interaction is certainly common and normal among introverts (ND), depression can be a sign of a deeper biological problem. We have to be careful when we take an accepting stance concerning the uniqueness of each of us, that we don't accidentally...
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    Help! Can't sleep

    Remember, along with neural diversity comes a variety of obsessive traits that serve as both blessing and curse. Sleep is so critically important to our mental health and quality of life that this is a subject that really needs to be respected and honored. These are all great suggestions for...
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    Question on Schizoid Personality Disorder

    Current thinking suggests that a personality disorder is a combination of fixed behaviors, combined with inaccurate perceptions, and out of proportion emotions. Personality structure is usually a combination of healthy, accurate, proportional interactions with the world combined with distorted...
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    Anxiety Attacks

    Bi-polar anxiety can respond well to marijuana in many cases. For some people it raises anxiety, and obviously each person needs to determine what medications are useful. Unfortunately it is still a highly regulated drug and illegal in many states. However if you live in a state where they...
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    Confused on Girl crush.

    Speaking as a neurotypical (mostly) everyone has trouble with love and attraction. Look for compatible points of view...politics, spiritual matters, lifestyle, intelligence, and curiosity. Above all, one needs to be proud of one's partner. Even if you are furious with your friend/mate, you...
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    Anxiety Attacks

    Clonazepam/Klonapin is a very effective anti-anxiety agent...designed to interrupt the anticipatory aspect of anxiety. It has also been show to be effective with anxiety associated with bi-polar spectrum, which is fairly common in Aspies. Meditation has also proven to be incredibly effective at...
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    Is hoarding aa part of asd??

    Collecting, and finding value in objects is also a strong trait of the INTUITIVE (N) function. Another thread exploring the MBTI identified strong intuitive traits in our population. This is another reason why it is hard to get rid of anything...there is always a possibility it will be useful...
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    Psychotherapist from Aspie spectrum family

    One truth I have learned in my years as a therapist is this: The narrative we tell ourselves, and repeat to others, defines the nature of our world. The world will "fit" into our expectations. Regardless of the crazy sh#$t that we have endured, we owe it to our greater self to become the...
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    Psychotherapist from Aspie spectrum family

    I've been a clinical therapist for 41 years and it has only been in the past 5 years that I have become fascinated with the Asperger's spectrum. To be honest, we all know how easy it is to misdiagnose High Functioning Asperger's as either simply ADD/ADHD, narcissist with anger issues...
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    Waking Up!

    Waking Up!
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