Sid Aaron Hirji
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Canadian born man who finds literature and science equally fascinating. Trauma bleeds through generations, words heal the hidden scars.
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Helicopter Parents
It is a natural phenomena for parents to be very invested and interested in their child’s activities. However some parents may seem overly paranoid and be toxic to their children. With parenthood comes such a huge responsibility that parents may start feeling inadequate. They may then overcompensate for these inadequacies by being helicopter parents. While all parents should take interest in their children, it should never come to the point where they take control of the child and live their own dreams through the child. As we should all understand, our parents suffered traumas from their parents and likewise their parents may have suffered as well. In short trauma bleeds through generations. This is a look at the toxic things helicopter parents put their children through.
By Sid Aaron Hirji4 years ago in Psyche
Emotional Neglect
Emotional neglect differs widely from physical abuse and other types of abuse in that it is not always intentional. However, the damage from it leads to long term suffering and trauma. Emotional neglect is when a parent may have too high expectations for their child, not be sensitive to their child’s needs or be dismissive of their emotional needs. Most of the time the parent has suffered this same issue with their family and passes it along to their child. It can take many years of therapy to undo the damage from this. Here are eight signs that appear in adulthood that are attributed to emotional neglect as a child.
By Sid Aaron Hirji4 years ago in Psyche
Mental Illness and Schizophrenia
Mental illness is one of the most common causes of human suffering in society. Unlike a disease like cancer, it carries a huge burden of shame, stigma, discrimination and isolation. Generally people are apathetic when it comes to this sort of suffering, especially when one comes from a good home and has a good job. Common responses when asking a friend who does not understand mental illness are as follows: “What do you have to be depressed about?, or I’d kill to be in your position.” Rather then people getting close and trying to help, they move branch further away especially when the illness starts to erupt. I use the word erupt as it feels like a volcano has erupted inside and snatched whatever humanity you once had. The reactions you get can be fatal and many people have lost relationships due to lack of education regarding their mental state shifting. Getting back to more about mental illness, it usually occurs in adolescence to young adulthood, a time when finding one’s identity is critical. Due to this timing, many individuals are not diagnosed and the awkward behavior is thought to be caused by puberty and hormonal changes. Other times people are just dubbed as badly behaved or weak and oversensitive with difficulty coping. For this reason, many individuals remain in identity diffusion, and may suffer an identity crisis their whole life. Mental illness for the record, is treatable and is no way by any means a weakness. One of the most stigmatized mental illnesses is Schizophrenia which affects approximately 1% of the population.
By Sid Aaron Hirji4 years ago in Psyche
Pixie The Cat
Pixie was the laziest and most conceited cat around. Pixie’s master, Darryl, owned a restaurant and Pixie was always fed the leftovers customers left. Pixie usually would lie down curled up in a blanket all day. Only time he left the house was to taunt rodents that tried to show up at the restaurant. Pixie felt he had life made. Darryl however never showed Pixie much affection. Sure he groomed him, fed him and provided him a place, but Darryl seldom paid much attention to Pixie. Pixie did not know that it bothered him but deep down the cat’s heart he was starved to live a more full life. But for the moment Pixie treasured life and believed he lived perfectly. Until the day when everything he wanted was taken away.
By Sid Aaron Hirji4 years ago in Fiction
