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Hello I have a cousin I grew up with and he developed some mental health issues over the past few years. He sees a therapist regularly, he goes to a group, he takes medications, he spent some time at an inpatient facility, etc.

He still gets extremely upset at relatively normal people problems, to the point where he feels worthless.

I don't mean to downplay his predicament, I just get the impression that this treatment ...

Good morning, this is my first post after reading this forum and many others. I'm looking for advice and help firstly to establish what is going on.
My wife of 3 years has the traits of a narcissist and I've only just learnt of this by reading about it and the many helpful pages available.
To sum up her, always right, there is no other reason and everything is black and white. There is little ...

Looking for some advice/a space to vent more than anything.

Last year my friend got diagnosed with BPD. It didn’t really come as a surprise. At first she was drastically improving with treatment and doing well. However earlier this year her treatment stopped, and she went into crisis mode, eventually being admitted into psychiatric care after threats of suicide.

Since then, it has been challenging to be in her life. While she was in care ...

I tried to post this once, but there was an error and it didn't go through.

First of all, I want to say that I wouldn't necessarily pigeonhole someone's behavior just because they've been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. There's a real human beneath the diagnosis, and I feel that it's disrespectful and shortsighted to interpret all the person's behavior through that lens. Basically, I'm trying not to assume the worst about this person.

Anyway, ...

Hi everyone!

I was married to an HPD for awhile, who cheated, lied, played mental games and then one day she up and left with another man. When we dated, everything was great! Then the cheating began and she had to admit it to me when she got caught. Like an idiot, I begged her back, she convinced me it was my fault. So we got married. During the marriage she had many affairs. She ...

I’ve had a bestfriend since we were 5 (we’re 21 now). Went to school and college together.
Over the years we’ve had a few arguments but nothing serious.
Lately we had a big one and I’d appreciate your POV.

Me and my long term GF of 2 years had broken up a couple of months ago.
Him and my ex never met but they did speak a few times on call, most convos about me. ...

It doesn't seem possible that even now that she has passed, I found out a secret about her that hurts. Yesterday my sister told me a secret my mother told her 50 years ago. She said her son in law, my (ex) husband had made a pass at her. This is completely ridiculous. In fact, I saw her flirt with him. She has flirted with the boyfriends of my sister. She has a history of ...

Hello everybody! I am new to this forum and quite excited to be here. I am looking forward to hearing opinions of people who know what it is to deal with Narcissists. My friends have a hard time grasping this concept.
But to the point.
I cut off my Narc around 2 years ago. Blocked him everywhere possible. Up to this day he uses my number for food deliveries (which I had to block), for ...

I was dating a man for about two years that is untreated bipolar. I love him very much, never felt this way before in my life and I am no spring chicken. When we first got together he was drinking, but has been sober for almost a year. We never had fights about anything real. He would just have episodes saying things he later regretted. He would break up with me, apologize and I would ...

When is it really a discard?

A friend of 6 years has not spoken to me for 4 weeks - our friendship consisted of him worshiping the ground I walked on to him being rude and very offhand to me. We followed the cycle of me telling him I was upset at something he said, him being blunt followed by a U turn of apologies and I love you’s etc and me quickly forgiving.

This ...