Tag: Borderline Personality Disorder
Posted on April 7, 2018
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Today is a momentous day. I see my mother at noon today for the first time in almost ten years. At least I think it’s ten years. I have some long-time readers who will know that this is a big deal. I have many…
Category: abuse in families, assertiveness, Borderline Personality Disorder, Healing, Mothers, personal development, Personality Disorders, Rage, therapy, traumaTags: assertiveness, borderline mother, Borderline Personality Disorder, boundaries, emotional exploitation, resiliency, therapeutic process
Posted on February 17, 2018
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To bring you up to speed, one of the reasons I started this blog ages ago was to process having a relationship with my mother. My mother has borderline personality disorder (BPD), but she also has other co-morbid disorders. When I was growing up,…
Category: abuse in families, Borderline Personality Disorder, co-dependency, Healing, Mothers, Personality Disorders, Rage, Sadistic Personality Disorder, suffering, therapy, TruthTags: abuse in families, borderline mother, Borderline Personality Disorder, co-dependency, enabling abuse, healing process, sadistic personality disorder
Posted on September 23, 2017
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One of the broader topics on this blog is mental health and how mental health is defined and experienced in different contexts. The DSM-V has divided and sub-divided the human experience into so many diagnoses that I imagine that every human could find an…
Category: Borderline Personality Disorder, encouragement, Healing, mental health, Mothers, Moving Forward, personal development, Personality Disorders, relationshipsTags: 10Q, borderline mother, Borderline Personality Disorder, divorce, divorce and judgment, personal development, self-actualization
Posted on November 4, 2016
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If you’ve read my blog in any detail, then you know by now that I have a mother who expresses her emotions and general psychology through a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder. If I were to follow Christine Lawson’s archetypes, then I would classify…
Category: abuse in families, Borderline Personality Disorder, Moving Forward, trauma, TruthTags: borderline mothers, Borderline Personality Disorder, family dysfunctions during the holiday season, Recovery, telling the truth, the queen, the witch persona
Posted on August 3, 2016
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I wrote this post, The Male Borderline Waif, a year ago, and it gets a lot of daily traffic. For as much research that’s been accomplished over the decades around borderline personality disorder (BPD), there are still few answers to be had particularly for…
Category: abuse in families, Borderline Personality Disorder, divorce, emotional abuse, men with borderline personality disorder, mental health, Personality Disorders, therapyTags: Borderline Personality Disorder, disturbed identity, divorcing a male borderline, fear of abandonment and mirroring, male borderline, mirroring behaviors in personality disorders
Posted on May 8, 2016
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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…
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
Posted on December 24, 2015
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I am still in therapy. It’s no longer something I remotely enjoy not that I ever enjoyed sitting in the Hot Seat before. Now, however, it’s work, and I can feel it. I can feel myself becoming defensive when my therapist asks a question…
Category: abuse in families, encouragement, Mothers, Moving Forward, personal development, Recovery, self-advocacy, therapy, TruthTags: Borderline Personality Disorder, crazymaking behaviors, denial vs. truth, dysfunctional relationships, fear of judgment, gaslighting, importance of therapy, telling the truth, validating environment
