Posted by Helena Smole in Relationships
on Sep 28th, 2015
Does it ever happen to you that you get yelled at and you know you are not the right reason for yelling? Does it feel like stepping on land mine? It could be called transferred anger. The person is actually not angry at you. The anger to the right person could not be expressed for various reasons. Perhaps the person is already dead, or it is the boss, who is too tricky to be yelled at. Or it even might be a very sensitive person, who starts crying easily, that is why it is better not to yell at him/her.
The bottled-up anger gets carried around and when there is a suitable victim to release the anger...
Posted by Helena Smole in Relationships
on Sep 14th, 2015
For as long as I can remember I have been trying to help the less fortunate. I helped a classmate in primary school and she finished it. I helped a dyslectic high-school student and he finished high-school. I wrote a book about coping with mental illness Balancing the Beast – A Bright View of Schizoaffective Disorder, mostly because I wanted to inspire other people in a similar situation.
Of course there were many cases, in which I could not help the person. I remember a mother who kept hugging her four-year-old son, whenever he had hit his younger brother, who was two. She explained to me that her...