Melissa Neff
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1,584 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jun 2017
last heard Dec 2022
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And then the sort of other presentation that I've seen with an older person with PDA, maybe a young adult, might be again some of the school refusal issues that maybe were were subtle.
Or maybe were that big of a deal when they were a child, but now it is
I'm gonna try college, but
I can't leave my room for three weeks at a time, uh my dorm room, but I'm not gonna tell my parents that.
I'm just gonna not answer the phone.
And so those avoidance strategies and resistance strategies become
sometimes ghosting and complete avoidance of going to class, answering the phone, eating food sometimes for for people with PDA because it feels like so much of a demand and a choice to decide what to eat.
So these are the folks that end up
Um, if they've made it through school
They don't often have a direction in young adulthood.
And these are the kids that sometimes end up saying, I don't ever want to leave my parents' house.
And they they often don't display a lot of initiative to move towards independence or or adulthood because they don't
Um they lack a deeper sense of what they want and who they are.
they tend to mimic and pretend and so they say, Oh, my peers are going to college, I'm gonna go to college but then they get to college and something doesn't quite
click or they can't find the motivation
To meet the demands on a regular basis.
And then they kind of drop out of life.
And that's when they come to my office and the parents are like
What are we gonna do with my child who's twenty two?
that lives in the basement that doesn't want to participate in life or even choose his own meals.
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