Whats your story?

by **Onebravegirl** » Fri May 13, 2011 2:45 pm

I'd be interested in anyone willing to share here what brought them to this forum. Not the LONG life time biography, but what thoughts brought you here. What is your motive for being here?
I'll start. I have always been struck by the saying that "What ever is most personal is most general". Meaning that we all have similarities. Being here on Psych Forums has been an excellent class room for me. I'm a student of human nature and Love learning about psychology. I had hoped that maybe my own past would be helpful in supporting others.
Any one else care to share?
One

I found this board after I learned my dad had a diagnosis of SPD. when searching for SPD, I read through the other PDs and HPD sounded similar to some of the things I used to do in my past mostly before marriage, and some after I was married. I feel this board has helped me and I hope that my story has helped others as well.
Scarlett

by **onthebrink** » Fri May 13, 2011 5:32 pm

I found the board after my ex abandoned me so abruptly, so cruelly, (after cheating on me flagrantly then playing the victim) that I felt like I had been transported to an alternate universe. I stayed because I felt that certain experiences I have had might be helpful to others, and perhaps shorten the time that they would spend suffering the additional burdens of self-blame and confusion.

by **LightZero** » Fri May 13, 2011 5:56 pm

I found out the truth about my ex gf lies and manipulations after she establish no contact to be with her new pawn. I thought to myself that no one can be that cold to someone that treated them right. I found it strange that someone could be a compulsive liar. So I used Google to find out the reason. I learned about emotional manipulators. That eventually led me to BPD/NPD. Then I eventually found this website talking about HPD. When I was reading other people's post I was amaze with how similar my story was with other nons. So I decide to come to this forum to get a better understanding of my ex gf and HPD. None of my friends could truly understand the pain and anger I felt inside. Every non and diagnose HP could relate to my pain and confusion. I'm glad I did come here because I would probably still be confuse.

by **LiquidLotus** » Sat May 14, 2011 12:16 am

I came across this forum by way of a Google search on male histrionics. Mind you, I wasn't looking for real live, in-person male histrionics -- as I had already encountered one of those ;-)

... Was just trying to get more insight into the expression of histrionics in males (which by the way, is very hard to come by).

I find myself returning to this forum and actually engaging in dialogue -- which is very surprising for me as I have pretty much been MIA in terms of social networking (on & off-line) for the past 4 years. It feels like this opportunity for interaction may provide a deeper layer of healing for me (and hopefully for you all too).

My motive or better yet intention for being here is to continue healing (particularily in how I relate to and with the men) and to be supportive and accepting of everyone here...

by **nowheregirl** » Sat May 14, 2011 4:52 am

onebravegirl wrote:I'd be interested in anyone willing to share here what brought them to this forum.

Thanks for starting this thread onebravegirl

I was here lurking for a long time before I posted. I was on a bipolar forum before this and also on another psych forum, but it wasn't nearly as "exciting" or "real".

This is a very lively forum and it's really nice to just be able to say things that are too scary or personal to say IRL and actually what you said about whatever is personal is most general is something I'm finding out on here because I guess I like to learn about people too and how they think and how they differ and just well everything.

And I don't like to hang out in bars, hate facebook type social networking, and I guess I relate to a lot of the people on here because of past abuse and I guess just bad choices of mine and a wreckless life and crazy emotions. I don't feel so alone anymore and that's huge for me.

by **mr.johnnymac** » Sat May 14, 2011 7:14 am

I really wanted to understand the traits of HPD when I realized I was wrong about it and how it operated in social interactions/relationships, and I had an awful ex HPD relationship that led me to a forum like this.

My apologies about the previous long post, One...as I truly could have used this simple sentence above to say what I was trying to say I think :wink:

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by **Onebravegirl** » Sat May 14, 2011 2:46 pm

SIGH....Please, future posters, keep your post shorter than the above.
Brevity+Simplicity=Clarity.
LONG posts take a long time to read. Time that could be used instead, to find support for one self.
One

by **okherewego212** » Sat May 14, 2011 2:51 pm

It was my ex's reaction to my confronting her about her cheating, that lead me to this forum. She threatened to ruin me and do harm to my kids. It scared the hell out of me. If she had of just said, she wanted to move on, or was unhappy in the relationship, it would still have hurt, but made more sense. Her reaction, made no sense. I found it abnormal.

I searched the internet to find out "why". I found my answer here.

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