by Elizabeth Singer | Feb 19, 2023 | Anxiety Treatment, Uncategorized
I dream of my toddler daughter. I’m changing a very full diaper. Louise, a female authority figure from a prior workplace, tells me by phone that I must bring the diaper to the doctor. I agree and look for it. I look in bags of trash. It is not there. I look all...
by Elizabeth Singer | Sep 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
Let’s pull on this moment like taffy and see what might be hidden there. You are doing important stuff. Somebody may even be paying you to do important stuff. And your kid shouts out to you from the other room. You hear it, but you don’t respond. Cause important...
by Elizabeth Singer | Jul 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
A Rage Outburst at Work Amelia comes shame-faced to one of her twice-weekly sessions. We are in our fourth year. This is her second treatment of some length. She is a professional woman in her 40s, married, with two kids. She is back in therapy to leach out a gray...
by Elizabeth Singer | May 9, 2017 | Panic, Rage
Panic on a Saturday Afternoon Eva is in her 40s. Married. Two kids, job she loves, smart, funny. We’ve been working a long time at twice a week. I won’t say more to protect her privacy. She has given me permission to tell this piece of her story. For her...
by Elizabeth Singer | Mar 12, 2017 | Anger Management Counseling, Rage, Uncategorized
Name-calling, cursing, pushing, shoving, grabbing and worse. You can’t believe it got that far, but it did, and you don’t recognize yourself. Sounds like a rage attack. Anger plus panic til you reach a tipping point, and you are out of control. It feels...
