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George Norrie with Dr. Donna Mark.

Her website again is linked up at coast to coastam.com.

Donna, when somebody comes to you as a psychotherapist, what do they generally want help for?

Well, most people that come to therapy are suffering.

They're in pain, and that's what brings them to getting help.

Very few people come in and say, I'm feeling great and I want to feel better.

And so that's just the nature of the business

they want to get out of the pain that they're in are they feel that something's

missing in their lives which is more subtle pain but nevertheless it's a driving

force is it physical pain or mental pain emotional emotional yeah emotional pain and so

when they come in and I listen to them and ask certain questions, I try to find out what is causing that pain or that discontent or that dis-ease in them.

How much of it is caused from childhood, in your opinion?

Well, I think that most people who are experiencing situations and their life that are troubling them

almost always have something going on in their childhood.

And it could be that it's not obvious.

It could be that there was one particular person had a helicopter-type mom, and it overpowered him and made him feel inadequate.

And so whenever he feels that he's being controlled, he reacts. And yet you can say, what kind of childhood did you have it was perfect my parents stayed

married my stay at home mom had all my needs met but that need to control that little boy that

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