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Things finally came to a head today. I blurted out that I felt *persecuted* today.

I fear rejection but I realize that to protect herself, she must reject me.

Advice?

do you consider yourself susceptible to people manipulating you by trying to make you feel guilty about things? how do you deal?

personally I feel like this can be very dangerous for me--a combination of low self-esteem, being immersed in this type of manipulation throughout my childhood, and tending to take too much responsibility for other people's feelings--makes me very easy to manipulate if someone makes me feel guilty about something. I tend to get ...

This causes me much pain and dysfunction in my life with my relationship with my husband.

I drive myself crazy with the love/hate, the idealizing and devaluing. When I convince myself
that things are better or worse than they are, than it stops him and I from working on stuff
realistically in our marriage. When I think things are worse, I can fantasize about other men or
fantasize about getting a divorce. When I think ...

I can't get out of bed unless I ts to engage in risky behaviour or go out drinking or buy clothes. But I've already spent loads that I shouldn't have I have no one to go out drinking with this weekend so I'm stuck in bed all weekend. How do I get up when it's so hard?

for realsies!

I fall into different roles around different people subconsciously. Sometimes I'm a total narcissist. Sometimes I play meek. Dont even do it on purpose. Anyone else do this?

Hi Hi,
I'm new to this forum and was diagnosed with BPD about 3 months ago. I had a little incident yesterday and wanted opinions/ was wondering if anyone can relate.
A friend of mine was talking about some girl that neither him nor any of my other friends knew...calling her a "psychopath" and talking about how he heard she was "crazy". I asked him nicely to stop, that I didn't really like those words ...

When you push someone away because you are afraid of getting hurt, or getting too close what does it look like?

In about a month, I will leave the forum. I have something terribly wrong--beyond this disorder.

Love to all,

Cate

For the first time in my life, I actually got a diagnosis out of a psychiatrist! UNfortunately, it was borderline personality disorder, which I knew anyway, but at least now I can fight the damn thing and know what I'm fighting. We have started me on some new meds and I will be starting counseling soon. I have been reading here for a while and you guys have been a great help to me. I ...