@lclyde.bsky.social
Psychotherapist. Left hander in a right handed world, Londoner, greyhound lover, intermittently baffled.
Using autism as an excuse is just another way of avoiding responsibility for bad behaviour. Autism doesn’t make you mean or uncaring, just clumsy 👇
Elon and Kanye hide behind the autism label when, in reality, there are significant differences between autism and narcissism (yes, you can have both), which everyone should know. existentialcafe.blog/2021/07/21/a...
Am I Just an Asshole?: The Difference Between Autism and Narcissism and Why It Matters
You’ll have to be really honest with yourself about this one. Over my short career, I’ve had several patients who were self-diagnosed as autistic or with having Asperger’s Syndrom…
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February 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Using autism as an excuse is just another way of avoiding responsibility for bad behaviour. Autism doesn’t make you mean or uncaring, just clumsy 👇
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Just as psychotherapy is not a social conversation, social conversations are not psychotherapy. Therapeutic principles are not meant to be applied anywhere and everywhere. The phrase “a time and a place” comes to mind.
November 15, 2024 at 8:36 PM
Just as psychotherapy is not a social conversation, social conversations are not psychotherapy. Therapeutic principles are not meant to be applied anywhere and everywhere. The phrase “a time and a place” comes to mind.
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January 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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A gentle reminder that your attention is a form of currency. Spend it wisely.
January 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
A gentle reminder that your attention is a form of currency. Spend it wisely.
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Word of the day is ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted by work.
I like to add ‘foreswunk’, exhausted before you even begin.
I like to add ‘foreswunk’, exhausted before you even begin.
December 12, 2024 at 8:12 AM
Word of the day is ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted by work.
I like to add ‘foreswunk’, exhausted before you even begin.
I like to add ‘foreswunk’, exhausted before you even begin.
The difference between navel-gazing and therapy, is that therapy uses introspection as a force for change. The changes we seek are usually relational. Nothing actually shifts if we remain exclusively fixated on ourselves. 👇
When therapy makes you self absorbed, entitled, and selfish www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Since starting training as a therapist, my husband thinks only of himself | Ask Philippa
Emotional growth should foster better balance and accountability, not avoidance of shared obligations
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December 3, 2024 at 12:09 PM
The difference between navel-gazing and therapy, is that therapy uses introspection as a force for change. The changes we seek are usually relational. Nothing actually shifts if we remain exclusively fixated on ourselves. 👇
Therapists aren’t here to make moral judgments. Moral judgments are easy but ultimately boring, they shut down curiosity and stop us openly wondering why we do what we do.
But, if ‘judging is categorizing some sort of pattern… then therapy certainly judges.’
But, if ‘judging is categorizing some sort of pattern… then therapy certainly judges.’
A misconception is that therapy doesn't judge; it's more accurate to say that therapy doesn't shame. To judge is to categorize a person, thing, or action. And while therapists don't judge people, they should have some understanding of what decisions mean. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/perf...
What Is Good Therapy?
It's an oft-repeated misconception that therapy is non-judgmental, yet therapy needs to provide a space of judgment for any growth to happen.
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December 1, 2024 at 10:03 PM
Therapists aren’t here to make moral judgments. Moral judgments are easy but ultimately boring, they shut down curiosity and stop us openly wondering why we do what we do.
But, if ‘judging is categorizing some sort of pattern… then therapy certainly judges.’
But, if ‘judging is categorizing some sort of pattern… then therapy certainly judges.’
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Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed.
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
November 24, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed.
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
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It's still fairly small at the moment but here's a starter pack of London artists and art accounts with a passion for London...
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November 17, 2024 at 11:19 AM
It's still fairly small at the moment but here's a starter pack of London artists and art accounts with a passion for London...
go.bsky.app/AWqNKCn
go.bsky.app/AWqNKCn