Keyword: indecision

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Honesty Fear and the Loss of Self September 3, 2013

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Communication & Conflict, Identity & The Self

Protecting people from the truth slowly erases who you are. Armand DiMele argues that fear of hurting others’ feelings drives chronic self-suppression, indecision, and blame, tracing how the habit often begins in family dynamics and quietly hollows out a person’s sense of self.

The Psychology of Clutter and Hoarding November 30, 2006

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Addiction & Compulsion, Identity & The Self

Clutter is a habit; hoarding is an illness, and Armand DiMele draws a clear line between them. He traces hoarding to a fragile sense of self, fear of loss, and compulsive just-in-case thinking, then takes calls from listeners wrestling with their own accumulation and the anger and grief beneath it.