Posts by Shawna Freshwater, PhD
Codependency Traits: What, How, When are the Traits Formed?
What are Codependency Traits Codependency is a group of personality traits or personality characteristics. They are cognitive, emotional, and behavioral patterns that affects an individual’s ability to have a healthy, mutually satisfying relationship with oneself and with others. They are maladaptive patterns. However, no such disorder is recognized by the Diagnostic Statistical Manual-5 (DSM-5). However,…
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Personality Disorder: What, How, When is It Formed
What is a Personality Disorder? Personality Disorder is a pervasive set of problems that are theorized to begin in infancy or early childhood development and continue in adulthood. They are called Personality Disorders in the DSM-V because these problems tend to affect many aspects of a person’s personality, including sense of identity, sense of Self,…
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Narcissism and Empathy
Narcissism is essentially a problem of lack of empathy Narcissism is essentially a problem of lack of empathy. Empathy is vital for cooperation and friendship. Without empathy, there would be no humanity – just a world of disparate individuals without the social glue to hold them together. Empathy is an experience of understanding another person’s…
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Nervous Breakdown what is it?
What is a Nervous Breakdown or Mental Breakdown ? Nervous breakdown and mental breakdown are very outdated terms still used by the lay person typically describing emotional or physical stress that makes someone unable to function in day-to-day life. Though once used as umbrella term for a wide range of mental illnesses, mental health professionals…
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Concierge Psychotherapy and Coaching
Concierge Psychotherapy and Coaching If your status, lifestyle, public profile, schedule, or employment do not allow you to seek typical psychotherapy in a crowded therapy office, then concierge therapy and coaching is for you. Dr. Shawna Freshwater provides VIP concierge psychotherapy, counseling, coaching, and healing to the most elite members of society. Dr. Freshwater is…
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