Anxiety and the Unpredictability of the Other

Anxiety is the feeling of being overwhelmed and enveloped completely preoccupied by what mood the other is going to be in. The child spends all their time anxiously anticipating what might happen next. This is a kid who does not live in a household that is a containing or holding environment for them. It doesn't provide them with the requisite safe space to be imaginative, to be playful,. To sleep at ease, to just kind of drift off.