Thanks to whomever brought up Histrionic Personality...

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Sorry I should have scrolled thorough to see who it was but I've got a

sick baby on my lap.

Holy #$@@$#%!!!!!

When I googled it and saw what it was, I nearly fell out of my chair.

It's definitely not nada but someone very close to her. My aunt who

is only a few years older than me.

Nada's foo is seriously messed up. Nada's father is psychotic.

Physically, mentally & sexually abusive. The kind of guy you wouldn't

be surprised to see on the evening news for doing something horrific.

Let's say I haven't seen him in over a decade and could take him out

single handedly if he ever got within ten feet of my kids. I have

very violent reactions when I think of him (though I myself was never

abused by him). He once tried to drown nada as a child and made

passes at her best friend growing up. God only knows what he has done

that we don't know about.

Grandnada...geez, I wish I knew. Likely also bpd. A whole whack of

stories there too. She is divorced from " grandfather " and still all

her grown children (save my nada) live with her. My histrionic aunt,

an uncle crippled by an accident decades ago and another uncle who is

antisocial, unpredictable and violent. My disabled uncle usually gets

away with his behaviors to others because of a head injury and how

crappy his life turned out. Still, this is a guy who wanted to to sit

on his lap as a teenager and asked his sister to " help " him out. I

know he has a head injury but he knows right from wrong. I have proof

of that. My other uncle? Maybe bpd? Not really clear on all his

symptoms but have witnessed some violent actions.

The foo insanity goes wayyyy back. Sexual abuses, alcoholism,

children abandonned by parents - mentally & physically (love that I

can from a long line of sickos) and tons of emotional abuse. Now I

have this wierd absession with trying to " diagnose " them. Nothing

really fits completely but the histrionic thing really jumped out at

me. We always thought she was just a twit.

It feels good to " understand " them a bit better. Kind of like

charting my family history. It is as important to me as knowing if

they had heart disease or diabetes.

I get some small degree of comfort knowing that they are diseased. It

seems too much to believe it was a rash of bad personalities.