What are your Fleas? Need help- writing a paper for school!

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Hi All!

I am in graduate school right now and in the next few months I am

hoping to gather together a list of behaviors we as nonBP children of

BPD parents have noticed in ourselves as a result of having a BPD as

a parent. We call them 'fleas' sometimes. I will not quote anyone, I

will not use names, none of the info you share will be attibutable to

you. I plan to gather it all together, find the similar ones, and

make a nice list. My hope is to help those of us in similar

situations recognize in ourselves what the 'residue' is of having

a mentally ill parent. Sometimes we think it may be what everyone

else does or thinks, and over time we realize its not 'normal'. So

whatever you can come up with, I would appreciate it. Please post as

many times as you want as you think of them, I am hoping to have a

huge list by the end of this thread. Please make your post as clear

and concise as you can.

It may be a way of thinking, a physical behavior, emotional response,

anxiety, the way relationships go for you, your parenting methods,

whatever you feel is attributable to being raised by a BPD parent.

THANK YOU!!!!