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I dated a borderline gal who saw meanings in words that were not there.


I'd write her emails that were loving and kind but she would focus on one sentence and see hidden meanings. She's see meanings in words that simply weren't there. I'd would simply give up trying to explain anything.

A reassuring statement such as "I'm not going anywhere" would be taken as a threat that I was actually going somewhere.

Statements such ...

I'm wondering if this is BPD creeping up on me right now.

So, here is what is going on. I have these treatments that I have to take for my interstitial cystitis, whenever I take them I am usually hurting throughout the rest of that day and the next. I was planning to do a treatment tonight, but then my mom calls and reminds me about fathers day tomorrow and how we were going out ...

An ex boyfriend whose a nurse contacted me the other night out of the blue.
He wanted to know how I was, as he found out I was diagnosed with BPD (something he was suspicious about).
I said I was doing well, was starting DBT, was taking my medication (which I would refuse to take), going to therapy sessions and attending gym to keep myself as normal as I could for someone with BPD.
He ...

Hi all,

I haven't been diagnosed officially, but from reading books and sites about BPD recent, it's clear I at least have many of the traits associated with it, and that they've lasted for about a decade.

It's been a huge relief to learn the name for what I'm feeling, and I feel like I'm ready to try to start getting better. Reading the threads here have helped me to feel more grounded.

My question ...

I thought I was okay and I feel like a wreck all over again. I went to my ex's facebook page (I know, stupid) and her main photo is her kissing that guy I heard she was, "acting like a vampire on," about a month after our official split. Accordingly, his main is one of them kissing too. He even kind of looks like me which is a super slap in the face. This is ...

Hey everyone,
I'm 18 and just recently took a bunch of psych tests only to establish that I've got symptoms of borderline personality. I've had issues with aggressiveness in the past, and right now I feel that it's accumulating inside me. I've had dreams about being quite hostile or even violent, and I even wake up feeling guilty. Not too long ago I came out of a relationship and I saw her on the street ...

I knew something was "off" but I couldn't quite place my finger on it.
She simply cut me out of her life in the coldest email ever and there was NO closure.

She's a gorgeously smart woman but she hid her illness from me for 18 months. I feel that she knows she has BPD but won't admit it to herself or me. It's been six moths since we broke up and I can't get ...

Hey I'm a 25 year old male who grew up in a fundamentalist Christian household and left the church 2 years ago. Without getting into direct details about things right now, I seriously think I have some sort of personality disorder.

Ever since I was around 12-13 my relationships waver from extremely good to downright awful... often going from one to the other rather rapidly. My mood seems to follow a similar pattern, though. I ...

Lifted from Otto Kernberg's "Psychotheraphy for Borderline Personality: Focusing on Object Relations theory"

http://i858.photobucket.com/albums/ab149/settdp/PDgraph.jpg
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I thought it was interesting. You can read the book on Google Books, well, some of it.

EDIT: link - http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=y4im ... &q&f=false

This is going to seem weird? Does anyone feel manipulative? I have been told I was a master manipulator. The thing is, I don't feel like I am. I cannot control how I act upon my emotions most of the time. I can try to hold back, but most of the time when I don't act instantly on my emotions and I try to hold back the way I want to act, it usually comes ...