RAD, unmasked
What Reactive Attachment Disorder looks like from inside the house — at 6am, at bedtime, in the parent–teacher meeting where you are the one on trial.
Cipher: behaviour is a message, not a verdict
Codebreaker Zone
File 001
Subject: Reactive Attachment Disorder
Status: Decrypting
They called you the villain. They were describing themselves.
The accusation arrives pre-written. The fight repeats with a different face. Dr. RAD unmasks Reactive Attachment Disorder — the trauma loops, the push-pull, the language clinicians use and the language nobody says out loud.
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Decryption index
Four things nobody explained to you properly.
Not pamphlet language. Not a checklist you already failed. Each dispatch takes one mechanism apart and shows you where the wiring goes.
Trauma loops
Why the same argument keeps arriving with a new cast. The loop is not a character flaw; it is a circuit — and circuits can be traced, interrupted, rerouted.
Cipher: repetition is a request for a different endingThe push-pull
Come closer. Get away from me. Both in the same breath, both entirely sincere. What is actually being negotiated when closeness reads as danger.
Cipher: the push is a test of whether you stayAttachment reboot
The repair side of the ledger — co-regulation, perspective-taking, micro-interventions you can run in a classroom or a kitchen, with what you already have.
Cipher: small, boring, repeated, on purpose
Intercept
The villain calls you the villain. The hater cries hater.
Dr. RAD — The Attachment Code Breaker
Recent transmissions
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A working archive: clinical frameworks, classroom interventions, and the parts of the attachment literature that rarely make it to the parents who need them.
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Quantifying trauma's effects on foundational learning skills.
Open fileThey called you the villain.
They were describing themselves.
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For children experiencing attachment trauma — what teachers can actually run.
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Co-regulation and perspective-taking modules for adoptive parents.
Open fileThe S.O.D.A.S. Problem-Solving Method for Kids
A simple tool to help children think before they react.
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