Midlife crisis
The period in which you ask whether the life you have built is really yours.
How it shows up
It isn’t necessarily drama with a new car. More often it is quiet: restlessness in the middle of an orderly life, a sense that time is passing, and the question of what you chose yourself and what you simply took on.
What we do with it in therapy
We don’t try to close the question too quickly. It is, after all, a sensible one — and the answer often changes more than any quick decision.
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See also
Attachment
The pattern by which we move closer and pull away in relationships — learned in childhood, repeated in adulthood.
Trigger
A cue that instantly calls up an old emotional state, although the present situation doesn't call for it.
Parenting styles
Ways of parenting that differ in how much warmth and how much demand they contain.
