Category: cluster c personality disorders

The Borderline Blame Storm

Posted on May 8, 2016 by MJ

I was asked recently to write more about being in relationship with someone who expresses as having a personality disorder. Firstly, I want to be careful because I don’t want to vilify people who carry this diagnosis. There is a lot of inflammatory rhetoric… Continue Reading “The Borderline Blame Storm”

Category: abuse in families, blame, Borderline Personality Disorder, cluster c personality disorders, emotional abuse, Healing, mental health, personal development, Personality Disorders, Rage, relationships, self-advocacyTags: abuse, accountability in relationships, blame, borderline mothers, Borderline Personality Disorder, narcissistic injury, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, narcissistic supply, personality disordered parents, theory of mind deficits

Affective Deprivation Disorder and Alexithymia in Marriage

Posted on September 19, 2014 by MJ

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I have written somewhere in here that my marriage has been difficult. If you’re married for nearly two decades, then I think, at some point, there will come hard relational times. It’s inevitable and normal. I am someone who doesn’t like to put up… Continue Reading “Affective Deprivation Disorder and Alexithymia in Marriage”

Category: abuse in families, autism, cluster c personality disorders, DBT, disorders, God, Healing, marriage, therapyTags: Affective Deprivation Disorder, alexithymia, Alexithymia and other psychiatric disorders, Aspergating the self, Asperger's in marriage, self-validation, validation