Why Can't I Be Happy Like Everyone Else?
A young woman came to see me. She was tired of being Bi-Polar... That it was consuming her... She was either talkative, intense, active or silent... She desperately sought balance in her life. I asked her to write for me and draw a few trees. Here's what her handwriting and trees revealed... There was a youthfulness about her... It was as if she was emotionally stuck in an earlier time of her life. Something that she was secretive about. Her character is socially competitive... She cares how she is perceived by others. She created an image that for her, was more socially acceptable than the truth. It's this closed, inflexible attitude that causes her unpredictable moods... She feels a need to protect herself... She's afraid. She's afraid of being unworthy... She's got all this bottled up anger because she's suppressing a deeper need. Some highly troublesome experience happened to her around the age of 10. She feels ashamed. Her