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I want to break the pattern of sabotaging myself when I am feeling good, doing good,
everything is flowing, I am feeling the love, helping others' etc.

I tend to binge or think negative thoughts. "This isn't going to last" etc.

I am just going to be mindful of this pattern. I'm feeling great now .

I know this is coming.

This wanting more, or feel like I deserve less..

I know this relates to ...

I have a very negative (and probably inaccurate) impression of BPD, I just left a two-year residential treatment program that I was admitted into because of a crime I committed when I was in a psychotic manic state. The program was co-ed and you were even allowed to 'date' fellow patients. I dated a girl who had BPD, she never explained it to me in depth. When I broke up with her she went off ...

http://www.psychforums.com/narcissistic-personality/topic126110.html

I'm seeing a therapist who is assessing me and referring me after she decides what is appropriate. As someone who suffers from BPD, DID (which hasn't been diagnosed and is being completely ignored) and major depression/elated moods (such I think Is bipolar but my meds - mood stabilisers funnily enough) control those moods) I think that I need something a little more direct than GROUP THERAPY. Borderline isn't even my main issue... My main issue ...

how to resolve the fights between punitive parent and abandoned kid

how to stop the kid from crying to strangers/acquantances and how to convince the parent that crying in front of close friends is allowed

any tips

I for the first time am starting to see the merit of DBT. I had a really great session today and, using the coping skills I learned, avoided self-injury after my trauma history and self-esteem issues both got triggered in the same day. I'm really proud of myself because I just got out of the hospital yesterday and I felt things spiraling already. I was afraid I'd end up right back where I came from ...

Hi,

Does anyone have a pdf copy of "skills training manual for treating borderline personality disorder - by marsha linehan"?

Cheers,

Sue

Eyes without feeling,
Hands of death,
Mind of madness,
Spirit of the damned.
Presence unnerving,
From deaths cold touch i rise again.
The meaning of this is when i couldnt come t terms with being mentally ill. and the night i finally came to terms with it, the next morning i awakened with a sense that the old me had died and the new me had awoken. The old me, who was depressed all the ...

I think that is the core of all of my problems, is my poor self image. I have no self-worth. I find my worth in others, how they percieve me, and in my relationships.

Because I am certain that if I had a strong, stable self image, my relationships with others would be far more stable. Because I wouldn't be looking for that worth and affirmation in others. And I wouldn't be so damn clingy ...

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/scie ... ha-linehan



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