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Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Cheating, Violence, Abusive Parents, School Anxiety, and Pet Grief

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Kirk Honda

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Dr. Kirk answers patron emails.

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0:00.0

Hey deserving of the listeners, I'm going to answer as many patron emails as I possibly can in an hour.

0:06.0

This first email is from anonymous-upitier patron, they write,

0:09.5

How do you deal with someone who has been cheated on and they think constantly that you're

0:13.8

cheating on them? How do you deal with them constantly asking you questions, accusing you of

0:18.4

cheating on them? My husband asks me very very often, every day sometimes. I want to know how to help him deal with it. End of email.

0:28.0

Well, I don't know your husband. I don't know why he would do that. Someone would have to assess him but a main hypothesis to pursue

0:35.8

is that he suffers from preoccupied attachment meaning that his early childhood

0:42.0

was difficult attachment wise and as a result he copes with that

0:48.0

difficulty early in life by being extremely anxious about losing people who are close to him.

0:55.0

Basically, when some people are young, they learn that in order to retain some closeness

1:01.2

with their loved ones, they have to be in a constant hyper aroused state

1:07.4

assuming that the other person is about to leave.

1:10.9

Because if they don't have that hypervigilance, then the attachment figure will

1:17.6

drift away and they will be alone. So they're in a constant state of worrying. It's sort of like you're walking on a high

1:25.8

wire and you're balancing there. And you know that if you take your eye off of the wire or you stop concentrating on balancing,

1:36.3

you're going to fall.

1:37.9

And that might have happened many times to you, right?

1:39.9

You're on the tight wire, high wire act, and you start to get a little distracted and then you

1:45.6

fall and you hurt yourself and then you get back up there and you say, okay, make sure you

1:49.8

concentrate all the time. Do not stop concentrating. Well that's what preoccupation is like.

1:56.2

When you're two years old, three years old, four years old, you learn stay focused on your parents,

2:02.2

stay focused on your parents. Stay focused on your caregivers.

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