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Trapped in the Mirror - Adult Children of Ns and Their Struggle for Self

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reallyME:
COULDBE,

What is the Mirror book?  I am about to take an ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY class in college next semester, and I do study things on my own about personality disorders.  That sounds like a book I must read.

~Laura

Hopalong:
Hi Axa, (Warning everybody: I'm recommending all the usual titles).
When I was a most-raving CoD, these books helped me tremendously:

Escape from Intimacy by Anne Wilson Schaff
Men Who Can't Love by Steven Carter
anything and everything by Pema Chodron (especially for you...--and me--she's a huge help with control issues. Wonderful.)
If the Buddha Dated and If the Buddha Married (can't recall author)
Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman
Dibs in Search of Self
Melody Beattie books on CoD
that joy2uandme web site (though I do not think he is well)
Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl

Hope some of them might strike a spark with you. I have complete faith that you can grow through it. You are so unsparing and clear about your patterns. Now you just need the inspiration to begin changing them.

(Suggestion: I'd switch back to the main board to discuss as you can get unread over here...)

Hops

Jade:
Hello all.

I have recently read "Trapped in the Mirror."

What I liked: Golomb's poetic, intuitive writing style. The very specific stories illustrating the interpersonal dynamics, step by step.

What I disliked: The occasional undertone of harshness and toughness. Her emphasis on overweight.

I agree that there was an undertone of sadness, melancholy or depression.

truth:
Hello 

This seems like a book I would like to read

T

Hopalong:
Welcome, Leah.
I'm so glad you found this board.
It sounds like a time in your life when you can really use some support.

You'll find it here...I have found such compassion and wisdom.
(I went through a terrible time of fearing my only child had become an N.
Now, I'm not interpreting her that way...pieces, or Nspots, yes, I have them too...
but not the full-tilt thing.)

I was going to suggest: how about starting a thread with whatever you feel like sharing on
the main board, not the What Helps? one? You'll get read more and get more responses there.

Again, welcome.
Hopalong

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