Come join us for an in-depth training on Reactive Attachment Disorder. The root of the disorder can be boiled down to one word:
TRUST.
When an infant is born into the world, it learns to trust immediately. Completely dependent on its caregivers, the child quickly learns that they will be comforted when they cry, fed when they’re hungry, supported when they’re hurt, and held when they’re afraid.
This baby feels cared for and safe and like they are a part of something. As a result of this care, the brain makes necessary connections....connections that will make a person whole.
In cases where that nurturing does not take place, however, those connections are not made. Are never made. To overcome, requires a lot of intentional work paired with much trust when trust was never woven into the individual in the first place.
How do you utilize trust, then, when it is non-existent? And therein lies the conundrum.
Common symptoms of Attachment Issues:
-Superficially engaging and charming
-Will not make eye contact
-Has poor peer relations
-Engages in persistent nonsense questions or persistent chatter
-Fights for control over everything
-Indiscriminately affectionate with strangers
-Not cuddly with parents
-Inappropriately demanding or clingy
A quote from “A Discussion On The Back Porch…”
“When a child with RAD decides she wants to control a situation, she is pretty much willing to go Rambo on you if she has to....running away, defacing property, harming herself, and even harming others. No limits. No boundaries. Suffocating with sorrow, she is willing to go to great lengths to escape.”
