Could It Be Borderline Personality Disorder?
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Borderline Personality Disorder - Information for the Family
The following 9-minute video, produced by my friends over at BPDFamily.Com, manages to capture the essence of the experiences when in a relationship of any kind with someone suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder.
It is estimated that there are 6-10 million husbands, wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, and children affected by Borderline Personality Disorder. Few know or are in treatment. When you don’t know, much like I didn’t, the trauma can be long-lasting and dramatically affect your life. Confusion, guilt, helplessness, among other experiences tend to pervade your lives. You will likely question your own sanity.
As you struggle to do everything you can within reason to get to the bottom of and cure your relationship of the never-ending chaos, the non-BPD can alter their entire personality to try to “keep the peace.” There is a term for this: walking on eggshells.
The main trait of borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a pervasive pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image and emotions. Watch and learn more:
If your loved one suffers from or you suspect may suffer from borderline personality disorder, I strongly recommend that you go ahead - visit and register at BPDFamily.Com and be sure to check out the article “Are You In a Relationship With a Borderline“.
Our 30,000 members are dedicated to support individuals and families with loved-ones affected by Borderline Personality Disorder as they journey through recovery, therapy, and self analysis.
Their website was instrumental in helping me to discover and understand just with whom I was dealing. A great many recommendations from long-standing members, even newbies, I employ today in order to manage my interactions with PEW. My only wish was that I had discovered them (and information & understanding about BPD) about 12-years ago.
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June 22nd, 2008 at 3:28 am
great post! I cannot thank you enough for getting this out there.
P.S. The little girls are doing fantastic with their dad.
December 19th, 2008 at 9:06 am
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May 30th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
What an excellent site! I’ve never seen or heard BPD presented so clearly and powerfully! We have an adopted son (now 35)who displays every symptom mentioned here. He was diagnosed at 3 independent psychiatric hospitals resulting in 3 identical opinions: BPD, bipolar and post traumatic stress syndrome. In my opinion, boarder line personality disorder (sounds so innocuous) is far and away the most destructive and debilitating condition of the 3 indicated. It is truly a curse. Life with a BPD ‘victim’ can be a full-time nightmare filled with a lot of fear and heartbreak and little progress or joy to show for it. Boarderliners are often accomplished ‘emotional vampires,’ as well
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