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Originally Posted by MoxieDoxie
Never heard of this.....many of us with PTSD, Personality Disorders and depression can easily have these symptoms. Is this a made up disorder?
EMOTIONAL DEPRIVATION DISORDER: Emotional Deprivation Disorder is a syndrome which results from a lack of authentic affirmation and emotional strengthening in one's life.
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Thanks, MoxieDoxie. I wonder if this isn't the originator's version of the underlying sense of self difficulties that characterize personality disorders in extreme form, perhaps not so strongly in "simple' PTSD and depression? Lack of authentic affirmation, and/or strong, traumatic disaffirmation that a person cannot deal with, seem to be a common theme.
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Originally Posted by reesecups
. . And I'll never forget my case manager snarling at me "you have the emotional maturity of a child!" My therp was angry that she would say something like that without adding anything helpful. I knew my emotional maturity was not good. I think she was just being unprofessional by saying something like that. She was not a very good case manager IMO.
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Perhaps slightly off-topic, it sounds to me like the case manager's response was, frankly, "shaming." Definitely unprofessional and the kind of response or comment to people with "self" difficulties -- or emotional immaturity or emotional deprivation, take your pick -- which I believe can be very damaging, especially in what is supposed to be a "therapeutic" environment.
(I actually felt uncomfortable and "hated" to write "shaming" for fear just my comment itself would result in reesecups feeling uncomfortable. I'm still too likely myself to internatlize that kind of thing with the feeling that "I am bad". But maybe that's what we need to start to do? Calmly call it what it is, so that the "professionals" can begin to see it, too.)