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I have an immediate family member (dependent) who suffers from OCD. They have had issues with anxiety and depression as well. Their OCD is based on germaphobia and it has become paralyzing at times, to them and to our family. We try to help them make it through, but our entire family is walking on egg shells throughout the day. We feel like we are being held hostage to their OCD and don't know what ...

I post here because I have prior experience with BPD and FP!

I recently met an interesting individual that seems to be interested in me as well.
First Date: "I suffer from BPD!" ... ok, not new to me...

I was "FP" before. Can I avoid going there again w/o losing this person? Help!
I really , really like that person!

Recently someone told me something that stayed in my mind :
"One can't love someone that they fear". It was about their personal history. But it stayed in my mind.
What do you think?

Hi everyone,

This is the first time I have ever done this, but I need to talk to someone. I am so suicidal right now because of my narcissistic boyfriend. I don't know what to do. He has cheated on me in the past and I have major trust issues. He also has trust issues. He has not come home in 3 days, and I asked if he is with another woman he totally freaks ...

My adult son ( age 32) has schizophrenia and is going downhill. Since there is no cure for schizophrenia and I think the long-term prognosis is not particularly optimistic I am wanted to know if anybody knows what options are out there once the family can no longer care for him? Ae there assisted living places or state institutions (scary when I think of Nurse Rachet). Things are getting pretty tough for me and my ...

Not sure where this belongs to, but I'm okay with this post being moved to a different forum. This is a social problem that I've been carrying with myself for almost a year. I met a guy just when I started going to college in 2023. Everything was well at first for only 2.5 months, then suddenly - he became a different person. He just went cold and distant, for what reason - I have ...

Advice/insight is appreciated as I'm having a difficult time with my sister as of late.

I currently live 5 hours away from my family for work. Recently I was back home for a family emergency and was there back and forth for about 3-4 weeks. During the last week I noticed my sister making comments about needing to lose weight and noticing how little she was eating in a day (one day it was around ...

After I started getting interested in Borderline (BPD) things started to make sense and more and more I read about it on forums and other places on the net and what people share that experiences then everything suddenly makes more sense , and many things can be explained.

The story being changed over time is apparently a thing that BPDs do.

My wife has always talked badly about her ex-husband, and I understood that too. ...

Hi everyone,
It's so unlucky that I only just found out about this forum.
It has been a year of struggles and I really don't know what to do. Hope you can give me some insight.

I've been in a relationship with my now wife for 8 years. Organizing the wedding has been a tougher challenge than I expected and that exasperated problems that I've been hiding under the rug.
A year ago I met ...

My mother had narcissistic traits. My father I don't know. My siblings grew very insecure, egocentric with some big issues.

I was the one with no drama, smiling and discrete, developed myself outside home. Hiding issues or tears. I feared mother, like a squale, would kill me at the view of blood.

I took distance, took long time to find my way.

Now as an adult, I see them occasionnally. No drama.

Today I have ...