EIPD - Emotionally Incompetent Parent Disorder

Basically, this is a "disorder" which can be recognized by the following symptoms in adolescent teens, females in particular:

Common Symptoms of EIPD

Behavioral Symptoms

• Crying, especially crying alone in one's room at night
• Cutting, self harm
• Insomnia
• Multiple sex partners
• Engaging in cyber sex, phone sex
• Rebellious, defiant behavior
• Lying
• Spending hours talking to older men on the Internet
• Obsession with Dawson Creek re-runs, or Girl Interrupted video
• Listening to Eminem
• Difficulty expressing feelings with feeling words

Emotional Symptoms

• Feeling unwanted
• Feeling unloved
• Feeling lectured to
• Feeling alone
• Feeling guilt-tripped
• Feeling blamed
• Feeling judged
• Feeling labeled
• Feeling invalidated
• Feeling over-controlled
• Feeling disapproved of
• Feeling disappointing, inadequate
• Feeling afraid of one's parents
• Feelng afraid to be emotionally honest
• Feeling self-hatred

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