Memory Plus Program

 Imagine yourself as a child that is raised in an environment  Memory Plus Program  where security, safety, stability nurturance, empathy and acceptance are sometimes available, but that they are not predictable or consistently present. Where the family dynamic could be characterized as being detached, cool or unpredictable where those that "should" love and support you frequently manifest instability or unreliability.

A common outgrowth of this traumagenic family dynamic is a pervasive feeling that one is defective, bad, inferior, or invalid in important respects. Sometimes children learn to be hypersensitive to criticism, rejection, be inordinately self-consciousness making continuous comparisons between some unobtainable ideal and themselves, of course always discovering how far they are from this imagined ideal. Traumagenic family dynamics can set the stage and lay the groundwork for a child to adopt and carry a belief that they are in significant ways flawed and will inevitably fail, or is fundamentally inadequate relative to one's peers, in areas of achievement. Often involves beliefs that one is stupid, inept, untalented, and ignorant which can lead to many of the following symptoms.