WHO COULD HAVE IMAGINED BECOMING SOCIALLY DISTANCED FROM ONE'S CHILD? I had not intended to write another entry until we discover what awaits us on the other side of the 'Orange Zone', but two observations have prompted me to do so. The first of almost no consequence and yet it is small domestic contingencies, easily [...]
Category: A day in the life of a psychotherapist during lock-down
Monday June 1st The Coronet Diaries
As reported we are lurching out of lock out and lock down. I have heard it muttered today by someone in 'the know' that some of the finest scientists internationally have been working on a SARS vaccine for seventeen years and they are no closer to resolution... so it seems everyone is depending on the [...]
Saturday 30th May The Coronet Diaries
It feels as if we are already out of lockdown. DEFRA and Bell have returned from an early morning excursion to Regent's complaining that there are more bodies than daisies. Bell reports , "There were loads of kids completely out of control with parents running everywhere trying to catch them. Most of them were on scooters and [...]
Friday 29th May The Coronet Diaries
RUMPELSTILTSKIN IS MY NAME! One of the symptoms of a narcissistic personality disorder is the terror of saying, "I'm Sorry'" It is rather like the fairy story of Rumpelstiltskin * where the protagonist is in terror of anybody finding out, or speaking his name. The inability to say 'I'm sorry' is often linked with an [...]
Thursday May 28th The Coronet Diaries
YOU ARE HERE (PHOTO BY JOHN HAYNES) BUT WHERE AM I ? WHERE ARE WE? A new phenomenon is creeping in when I talk to my 'patients'. They are confused. Rather more than three people already this week have expressed reluctance to go outside their homes. They report feeling confused, anxious about what they can [...]
Wednesday May 27th The Coronet Diaries
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CLUEDO ON ZOOM There are many things I have learnt since starting Zoom sessions during the pandemic. A golden rule is never argue with anyone you are on Zoom with over technology. When it fails I have learnt to hold my feisty tongue, not to riposte, " But I have been on [...]
Tuesday May 26th The Coronet Diaries
BLOOD LETTING ANTIBODIES TEST A RESULT OF ACCURATE TESTING STILL NOT BEING COMMONLY AVAILABLE Yesterday, I saw my daughter Tanya for the first time in nine weeks as she decided to return from family-lockdown-life in Hove. She drove to our house, fortunately she now has a convertible after not owning a car for I cannot [...]
