Narcissism has become the armchair diagnosis of the decade. Social media is awash with people flinging the label around.

Both scenarios could describe someone with an insecure attachment style. If you’ve heard of attachment styles before, you may have seen them discussed within the context of romantic relationships.

For licensed therapist Valerie Labanca, who often works with Latine patients at Octave in Pasadena, California, most of her ...

This is called an insecure attachment. Your attachment style is formed in the first 18 months of your life and based on your relationship with your main caregiver. (Photo Credit: Generative AI by ...

This attachment style is most strongly associated with childhood ... Secure relationships can help individuals with insecure attachment develop greater security, while stress and relationship ...

Instead, attachment styles occur along a continuum, and people may be "secure" in some types of relationships and "insecure" in others. "There isn't a magical threshold at which a person suddenly ...

Disorganised: The third and most elusive of the insecure attachment styles, this develops when a child is raised in an unstable or unsafe home. It is often the result of an upbringing where abuse ...

If you have this attachment style, you avoid emotional intimacy and are very independent and content being alone. When people with insecure avoidant attachment are in relationships, they tend to ...

And that’s according to science. A 2024 study from the Psychology of Music found that 86 percent of popular music depicts insecure attachment styles. Unfamiliar with what those are? For the sake ...

A similar disorganized attachment can occur in captive chimpanzees, particularly orphans who are raised by humans. A lack of ...

But when early relationships are marked by neglect, inconsistency or abuse, they can give rise to insecure attachment styles. Adult attachment models generally identify three types of insecure ...