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Originally Posted by fishsandwich
See, there was hardly an interpersonal aspect when I was first diagnosed; I had already lived on my own for three years. I left home when I was 16 (started uni) because my parents were so terrible. My father was highly abusive and my mother is pretty much an overgrown child (and she'll admit that - in different words - after years of therapy). I actually didn't see or speak to either of them for the three years between when I left and when I was diagnosed. Some idiot in the hospital decided to ring my mum -- her number was saved in my mobile phone -- and while I'm glad we're speaking again, her involvement in my "treatment" was wholly unwelcome.
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You'll never escape your parents, fish. You carry them with you.
Actually I think of interpersonal aspects of mental illness as going way beyond parents. I would extend it out to the family, community, society, country - theoretically, the whole world. All kinds of social and economic and cultural things can impact on mental health and increase or decrease the amount of mental illness.
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Bizarrely, my father HATED the medical model.
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I guess we all have our quirks.
Lots of parents blame themselves or feel blamed. They're happy to think of it as a biological illness. I guess another alternative is to deny there's a problem at all.
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Interesting. I'll dig around in it for a while before bed.
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I'll warn you - there's lots to hate there.
Beyond Consequences was kind of a response to some of the attachment therapies that are out there for adoptive children with RAD. It's also more than a little a way for its promoters to make a lot of money with social work degrees.
I like the notion of helping a dysregulated person by regulating yourself.