You are an Ingrid -- "I am unique"

• * Give me plenty of compliments. They mean a lot to me.
   
• * Be a supportive friend or partner. Help me to learn to love and value myself.
   
• * Respect me for my special gifts of intuition and vision.
   
• * Though I don't always want to be cheered up when I'm feeling melancholy, I sometimes like to have someone lighten me up a little.
   
• * Don't tell me I'm too sensitive or that I'm overreacting!
   

• * my ability to find meaning in life and to experience feeling at a deep level
   
• * my ability to establish warm connections with people
   
• * admiring what is noble, truthful, and beautiful in life
   
• * my creativity, intuition, and sense of humor
   
• * being unique and being seen as unique by others
   
• * having aesthetic sensibilities
   
• * being able to easily pick up the feelings of people around me
   

• * experiencing dark moods of emptiness and despair
   
• * feelings of self-hatred and shame; believing I don't deserve to be loved
   
• * feeling guilty when I disappoint people
   
• * feeling hurt or attacked when someone misundertands me
   
• * expecting too much from myself and life
   
• * fearing being abandoned
   
• * obsessing over resentments
   
• * longing for what I don't have
   

• * have active imaginations: play creatively alone or organize playmates in original games
   
• * are very sensitive
   
• * feel that they don't fit in
   
• * believe they are missing something that other people have
   
• * attach themselves to idealized teachers, heroes, artists, etc.
   
• * become antiauthoritarian or rebellious when criticized or not understood
   
• * feel lonely or abandoned (perhaps as a result of a death or their parents' divorce)
   

• * help their children become who they really are
   
• * support their children's creativity and originality
   
• * are good at helping their children get in touch with their feelings
   
• * are sometimes overly critical or overly protective
   
• * are usually very good with children if not too self-absorbed