Dysfunctional Families: Empty, Lonely and Alone
Dr. Gary Bell's Absurd Psychology
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How to Heal a Dysfunctional Family
In a healthy family parents are calmly connected to their own family of origin and no family member has to deny or silence an important aspect of the self in order to belong and be heard. Every family is not going to be perfectly healthy but there are many that are in the middle families are dysfunctional because families are anxious systems. When people are anxious what they do is they align with one other person and then they focus on the problems of another person so they begin to lose objectivity, she says.
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