Attachment Disorder ???

A psychotherapist friend (not my T personally) defines many of her client situations for young people and adults in terms of "attachment disorder". She has tried to explain this to me but I don't get it. My reading leads me to RAD but isn't that for children? I really need to understand this better, it seems to have some of the symptoms of my own situation.

Well, I don't know the answer to your question, Cygnus. Perhaps the right PC member just hasn't spotted your Thread yet. Hopefully that person or persons will. I'd be interested to read their answer(s).

There's a lot in psychology these days that relates people's difficulties with parents and relationships in general in terms of childhood "attachment" patterns. Here's a general article from Wikipedia:

Attachment in adults - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Maybe that will be a starting point and you can check around the internet for other articles that may be helpful.

I think this kind of disorder is when you feel the need to be with somebody, belong to somebody and have their attention on you.There is always the reason. What about your childhood? Were you growing up with your parents, or somebody else were helping to look after you? Do you have siblings that you think you parents loved them more than you? All those traumas happens from the past memories. But you can heal that with forgiveness towards them and yourself. Have trust that you can manage things by yourself and you don't need others approval to go on.