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Today I listened to the song "This Love", from Maroon5's album "Songs About Jane". I don't know whether it is a song about a relationship with a BDP, but it seemed to me that it could very well be. This made me wonder about other songs, and films, about people with BDP and relationships with them. I think that music and films can be other tools to help process and heal at a gut level. ...

ok, this thought has been bothering me latley. i was in my relationship with my bpdexgf and i couldnt take her issues anymore. they were driving me crazy, and i ended up breaking up with her at the very begining of the 6th month of our relationship. throughout those 6 months, ive seen her:

cry all the time about any minor little thing then switch to being happy again within 10 minutes, fear of abandonment, ...

http://www.bpdfamily.com/bpdresources/nk_a104.htm

What is the difference..?


I think I'm one of them with the others traits, I think he's the other one with traits of the other.


How do I safely end this?

I am a 24 year old female, my entire life i have suffered from anxiety and mild depression, my mom ws diagnosed with schitzo affective disordr, Anyhow i have a hard time just "being" everything irritates me or makes me cry and my relationship with my boyfriend is suffering from it. we recently moved in together and i get angry every time he leaves or goes out with friends, i want him here with me ...

I came across a quote on-line a few weeks ago that I can no longer find. It basically said Nons roughly broke down into two groups: 1) the more co-dependent kind that covered for the BPD, in a manner similar to the way a co-dependent cares for and covers for an alcoholic partner, and 2) when the Non actively engages with the disorder, even taking on BPD traits. The quote went on to say that ...

Reading and publishing posts on this and other websites has turned out to be extremely therapeutic to me. Last week, I started a blog in which I will try to slowly explain and process my understanding of my one-year relationship with my ex BPD girlfriend.
The blog's URL is http://lovingaborderline.blogspot.com/ . I am also writing the Spanish version, which can be found at http://amorborderline.blogspot.com/.
The purpose of doing this is, first, to write in order ...

CODEPENDENTS!!!

IS your behavior in this forum Helping you or is it Reinforcing your own Mental illness??

I know… This blows your mind… WHAT!!! How Dare you!! You’re thinking

Think about this, as a behavior of a Codependent you likely Obsess over these things:
Codependents tend to:
1. Feel terribly anxious about problems and people.
2. Worry about the silliest things.
3. Think and talk a lot about other people.
4. Lose sleep over problems ...

I’m tired of the Negativity, So boring… the negativity both in myself and all y’all.

Here’s an open Challenge, I’m calling it. I’m Worth it, Are you?

And this IT that your worth… whatever you need it to be. Don’t even got to tell.

Here is the one rule, you have to come up with at least 5 POSITIVE reasons you are worth it. I’ll start.

1. I have a Belgian Sheppard that I raised ...

I was 15 when my mom was diagnosed as borderline, and everyone in my life assured me that I was not. I am now 29 and my psychiatrist is, shall we say, dropping hints, steering me towards Linehan. I am ultimately not surprised. I am the loneliest person in the world. I love socializing but I have almost no close friends because I can't stand having people close to me. I push my father, the ...