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I was in a DBT group once, and one of the guys in it started crying about losing his best friend. He went in a bit of a tangent and was talking about his feelings of grief and loss. At that moment, he was not speaking in 'DBT-ese'. The module was distress tolerance at the time, and the group leaders were very cold and curt the entire time he was speaking. (I guess according to ...

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Hello everyone:
I have BPD (and also Bipolar D/O). I have been in therapy non-stop since i was 18. I am in my thirties now. I have been in individual, group, several 12-Step groups, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills groups for years.
I have come very far in my life. I’ve got a good career, and a few months ago I got married to a wonderful man who I met 5 years ago. We have ...

Hi. my ex whom I live with sings whenever she's in the hall or the room next to mine, either that or she laughs manically at seemingly nothing. What is this? some sort of cry for attention or to distract herself from her problems?

Also if shes ever on the phone bitching about me to her family or friends she hovers outside my door and talks really loudly-I figure shes trying to get some kind ...

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Hi I am new on here and will do my best to explain this situation
I am 31 although I really do not know how this has happened as I still dont really feel like a 'proper person' grown up or anything really.
I have a 5yr old daughter. I feel completely inadequate as a mother although she is doing great and no one would ever realise.
I am bullimic and have been for 13 ...

I read the following in 'Women and borderline personality disorder: symptoms and stories' and the following really stood out to me. What do you think?

'Singer describes his patients as cut off from object relations with others, relying on fragmentary feeling states or sensations to "anchor" their identities. According to Singer, his patients used these feeling states to ward off the horror of feelings of inner emptiness or deadness. For some patients, any physical feeling, ...

My daughter's due date is Dec. 10th and I have been really stressing out this pregnancy because of all the drama from the baby's father. He was telling me he loved me a few months ago, then he stopped talking completely for awhile. He wouldn't talk to me about anything until last night, and he basically made it clear that he had no intentions on being any kind of family with our kids and I. ...

Hello everyone,
I am new to this forum and any other forum for that matter. Myself and my daughter i believe are victims of bpd abuse (daughters mother). I am 33 years old and my daughter just turned 4. This is a last ditch effort to seek help, advice or to just vent. My medical insurance is crap to say the least. I have read several books and articles over the past couple of years ...

I am 3 years in to a relationship with someone I believe has BPD, I only discovered this yesterday and having read "Walking on Eggshells" yesterday, pretty much everything seems to fit. Things have gotten to a very serious level and I am now very worried for my safety.

Two weeks ago I began leaving a laptop recording all day so all of her rages are documented including the sound of her beating me as ...