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I stumbled across this site and I’ve got that feeling that all my current relationship troubles can now be explained. I’d love to hear other people’s opinions on my situation. It seems that she’s HPD but I guess no one can be sure and what this label means for either of us.

I’ve been seeing her for about 8 months now. The biggest problem has always been these arguments we have all the time, there ...

I don't know where to begin. I just know that my sister has HPD even though she has never been diagnosed. I've noticed her dramatic behavior since childhood. She would over exaggerate headaches for attention and would get mad when she wouldn't get sympathy. In high school it got worse, everything would become a battle. I was of course caught up in it being the "responsible older sister". I would reach my breaking point though ...

Hi everyone I'm new here and don't have HPD I just want to know more about it. According to the famous psychoanalysis James Masterson who specializes in disorders of the self Avoidant, Histrionic and Dependent personality disorder all fall under the Borderline personality cluster they are subtypes and share the same underlying mental structure the only difference is their defensive styles. All fear abandonment by their love objects more than anything else. For those of ...

I realize I have tendicies of HPD. These are:

1-Craving for praise and approval.

2- Speak to please others.

3- Difficulty in doing anything where no immediate recongnition reward is there.

4- Quite fluid state of emontions which keep on changing. Same is the case with decisions making: make a decision and then revist it so frequently that most of the times simply change/reverse it.

5- Tendency to compare myself with others and feel jealousy. ...

My wife, who I am seperated from, goes to her first counseling session today.She promises to point out her behavior patterns that have been so distructive to our marriage. This session is more a pre marriage counseling session than a session to see if she has issues.I would rather it be a session about her behavior patterns alone.We both go at the same time next week. I have spoken to one of the "so called ...

http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/sanity_1.PdF

It's a free download of the book "The Mask of Insanity", written in the 40s.

It provides a pretty interesting history of the word psychopath, and some insight into why Personality Disorders aren't very well known to the public. The author (60 years ago) recognized that PDs cause more damage to people than, say, psychotics... but back then they technically had to be discharged as "sane".

In many ...

we have been married seven years. let me discribe her. always has makeup on. flirts with any male from age 3 to 80. she must always look good, car must always look good ect.
three times in seven years I have endured her affairs with other men. the trigger to the affiars is usually something that would require her to deal with a stressful situation. most of the time (90%) she is a warm loving ...

Well after one of my sex escapades I have ended up pregnant. I took the Morning after pill and i didnt work!!!! I am one of the 4% it failed! I am so confused........i dont know what to do.....and to top it all off I had the affair with my current partners friend. I already have a child with my current partner of many years.

I have an appt set up for abortion but dont ...

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My younger sister exhibited symptoms of HPD for 4 years before she was treated. She went to an intense wilderness-style treatment program for about 2 years. She's at home now, and doing well, considering. During the third year of living with her, I went off to college. I didn't get to follow along in her treatment process like my parents did. The worst is behind me now, but I still worry about her a lot. ...