People, especially, the child and then adult-child of a parent or parents, in relationship to or with someone with Borderline Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder or Anti Social Personality Disorder, are often unknowingly attached in very unhealthy ways. This type of bond, a is not at all a healthy bond or healthy attachment - it is addiction. People do feel attached so strongly that it feels like it will destroy you. Clients have often described this to me as feeling that something broke and that they are so broken now. This can bring about strong feelings of need for the Cluster B in spite of the high conflict, and confusion the often used tactic, among others, of intermittent reinforcement that fools you back into biting a hook again, if even for a short time.
Borderline Personality is not Narcissistic Personality. Language matters to understanding and people with codependency need to shift their focus back to themselves to heal.
People with BPD do not gaslight (like Narcissists) People with BPD do not discard like or for the same reasons as Narcissists. Some people with BPD have both BPD and NPD but rather than trying to diagnose the person in your life, it is healthier for you to learn to focus on yourself.
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BPD Ex Remember The Good Times?
Does Your BPD Ex Remember The Good Times? A.J. Mahari's answer, the explanation and
how staying invested in this answer is self-abandonment and going to increase your pain. What do you need to do to get past this question and false hope to start healing your pain?
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#1 Top Reason BPD Relationships Are Impossible
Relationships are one-sided and people with untreated it not significantly treated BPD are very self-focused victims taking everything personally and blaming those closest.
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They can’t and don’t take personal responsibility and they use others. You can’t really talk to them. Stop enabling a Borderline who is abusing you. It’s not love.
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BPD Ex Contact - Responding Only is Not NO CONTACT
Are you an Ex of someone suspected of having BPD or someone you know has BPD? Whether you know the relationship is over or not are you trying to not initiate contact first? Are you a stance now of only responding to contact (hoovers) from your Ex and thinking that means you have gone *no contact*?
You are not in full no contact if your Ex with BPD can contact you in any way. You are not in full no contact if you have left even one avenue of contact open to be hoovered and then and only then you respond. What are you doing? Why?
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BPD Relationship Idealized Split Abused & then you “become” their “abuser”? This is so common in relationships with untreated borderlines.
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Borderlines Don't Value You in Dating or Relationships
Borderlines don't value you in dating or relationships because they are insatiable and have failed at "othering". People with BPD are very (lack of)
self-focused and emotionally only aware of their feelings, wants that they mix up with needs. Borderlines don't value you because emotionally they are actually not relating to you, for who you really are.
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As Socrates was oft quoted as saying, "Know Thyself" and "The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living" At the center of whether you know yourself or not is also whether you trust yourself or not, like/love yourself or not. We need to know ourselves to assert ourselves, know and uphold our boundaries and to stand up for ourselves when times call for that. Socrates didn't fair well after his second quote above but this quote along with using the Socratic method of gaining insight, self-awareness, among other things, to truly "know thyself" is what is at the heart of mental health and well-being and a balance is the on-going living of emotional mastery. "Know thyself" is also crucial to understanding your own self psychology.
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If your partner with Borderline Personality is in therapy, what can you expect? How to best validate but not get into detailed discussions about their therapy. BPD therapy takes years and often comes too late to save relationships.
Is Your BPD Loved One Serious About Therapy? How can you tell?
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Borderline Personality - Trying to Love a Borderline? Impossible Futility!
Trying to love a borderline? Impossible Futility! It's like pushing a rock up a mountain when all you can do is try to get onto that mountain. A lot of effort. A lot of giving. People with BPD - no effort, learned helplessness, need="Love" and all take, take, take. TRYING is not DOING! What is keeping you stuck if you haven't gone no contact?
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