Re: Can't believe i'm not alone

[Guest guest]

I had a similar " awakening " ...

After several months of therapy (actually, closer to a year), my therapist

opened with: I've never worked with your mother, so I can't diagnose her, but

from what I've heard, she sounds like she has BPD. Actually, I have a book you

might find useful. " She then handed me " Surviving the Borderline Parent. "

I had no idea there was a name for what I went through. It was like having a

huge load lifted off my shoulders.

So yeah, welcome =)

Frances

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> I've been seeing my therapist for about 2 years now. I talk to her a lot about

my family, especially my " crazy " mother, or at least what I had thought at the

time and almost my entire life. After about a year of seeing her(my

therapist)had told me that of course because she hadn't seen my mother

personally that she couldn't diagnose her, but she could tell me from what I

told her over the past year about my mother that she was fairly certain that she

had Borderline Personality Disorder. I had never heard of it. She wrote down the

name of a book and author,(Stop Walking on Egg Shells by Randi Kreger). I stuck

it in my wallet. Almost a year later (last week) I find the piece of paper,

check the book out and I am so completely baffled by how the book seems to me to

be almost written about my mother herself. Rather excited about finding out that

there are others out there just like me, I log on to the website, and here I am!

>

[Guest guest]

I'm glad you're here! (Well, not " glad, " you know what I mean--happy you've

found support.)

I was thinking the same thing the other day, how throughout ALL of my life, I

would think " what is wrong with me?? am I not loving enough? am I not doing

enough??, etc., why is she so difficult to relate with/to? "

it's so good to find others in the same boat.

>

> I've been seeing my therapist for about 2 years now. I talk to her a lot about

my family, especially my " crazy " mother, or at least what I had thought at the

time and almost my entire life. After about a year of seeing her(my

therapist)had told me that of course because she hadn't seen my mother

personally that she couldn't diagnose her, but she could tell me from what I

told her over the past year about my mother that she was fairly certain that she

had Borderline Personality Disorder. I had never heard of it. She wrote down the

name of a book and author,(Stop Walking on Egg Shells by Randi Kreger). I stuck

it in my wallet. Almost a year later (last week) I find the piece of paper,

check the book out and I am so completely baffled by how the book seems to me to

be almost written about my mother herself. Rather excited about finding out that

there are others out there just like me, I log on to the website, and here I am!

>

[Guest guest]

I'm glad you're here! (Well, not " glad, " you know what I mean--happy you've

found support.)

I was thinking the same thing the other day, how throughout ALL of my life, I

would think " what is wrong with me?? am I not loving enough? am I not doing

enough??, etc., why is she so difficult to relate with/to? "

it's so good to find others in the same boat.

>

> I've been seeing my therapist for about 2 years now. I talk to her a lot about

my family, especially my " crazy " mother, or at least what I had thought at the

time and almost my entire life. After about a year of seeing her(my

therapist)had told me that of course because she hadn't seen my mother

personally that she couldn't diagnose her, but she could tell me from what I

told her over the past year about my mother that she was fairly certain that she

had Borderline Personality Disorder. I had never heard of it. She wrote down the

name of a book and author,(Stop Walking on Egg Shells by Randi Kreger). I stuck

it in my wallet. Almost a year later (last week) I find the piece of paper,

check the book out and I am so completely baffled by how the book seems to me to

be almost written about my mother herself. Rather excited about finding out that

there are others out there just like me, I log on to the website, and here I am!

>

[Guest guest]

Glad you found your way her, but sorry you needed to. I think you'll find a lot

of support here and a whole bunch of validation.

Can't believe i'm not alone

I've been seeing my therapist for about 2 years now. I talk to her a lot about

my family, especially my " crazy " mother, or at least what I had thought at the

time and almost my entire life. After about a year of seeing her(my

therapist)had told me that of course because she hadn't seen my mother

personally that she couldn't diagnose her, but she could tell me from what I

told her over the past year about my mother that she was fairly certain that she

had Borderline Personality Disorder. I had never heard of it. She wrote down the

name of a book and author,(Stop Walking on Egg Shells by Randi Kreger). I stuck

it in my wallet. Almost a year later (last week) I find the piece of paper,

check the book out and I am so completely baffled by how the book seems to me to

be almost written about my mother herself. Rather excited about finding out that

there are others out there just like me, I log on to the website, and here I am!