What is it like having HPD?

by **schizoidman24** » Sat Nov 11, 2017 11:15 pm

Someone once told me that it is like being on cocaine/ecstacy and the subsequent come down.

Based on observation, it seems like the Histrionic will feel bouts of extreme passion toward a person, place or thing. This could be the ecstasy. And then when engaged with someone, receiving their attention, they feel like they're on cocaine.

The come downs.. yes. I think the comedown is highly dependent on the situation. If alone, yes. Hard hard crash.

I too am interested to hear from a real HPD, though?

How does it Feel?

by **xdude** » Tue Dec 12, 2017 9:59 pm

Knoxious wrote:I too am interested to hear from a real HPD, though?

How does it Feel?

Just so you know, referring to people who are struggling with HPD as 'a real HPD's already puts up a road-block, by labeling them as mechanisms.

But since answers are unlikely, I tried for many years with partner who I believed suffers from HPD, to talk about her feelings, versus talking about others, and never got anywhere. She could tell me who had done her wrong, or who she was idealizing, but she could almost never tell me how was she feeling without an anchor (another person) as the focal point.

Maybe, somewhere in our past we learn, our own feelings don't matter, or worse should feel guilty for feeling them, and so one way of coping is the HPD route? That doesn't mean the person struggling with HPD doesn't feel, it just means they've not learned how to express it, or it's just too painful to face, and so avoid.

by **Sunshine84** » Tue Feb 20, 2018 6:32 am

Its too broad of a question. What do you mean how do we "feel"?? When you say it like that you're making me feel like I'm not normal, and in my eyes i am normal, just like you.

Your question is too general you need to be more specific.

What is it like having HPD?

What is it like having HPD?

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