Guest guest Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share Posted February 29, 2012 This is a little old, and I'm not sure if it's been posted yet. For people who are new to the group (or not new!) this could maybe be helpful...it's about...surprise, borderline parents (mothers specifically): http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200707/borderline-walking-the-line Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share Posted February 29, 2012 Thanks for posting that, its good that more and more psychologists are becoming aware of just how much long-term, severe emotional damage can be done to children who are raised by a parent with bpd. (Particularly when its the mother who is moderately to severely impacted by bpd, is untreated, and has sole, unsupervised 24-7 care of children.) The author references " Understanding The Borderline Mother " by Lawson, which in my own case had a profound impact on me, helped me really start to understand what was going on with my bpd/npd mother and helped in my healing process tremendously. And interestingly enough, the author of that article also references and quotes Randi Kreger and her books: Stop Walking On Eggshells and " The Essential Family Guide to BPD " . Randi is the owner of this Group and the other support Groups of " BPDCentral " . And, RK now has her own blog at Psychology Today online called " Stop Walking On Eggshells " and has written lots of articles about both borderline pd and narcissistic pd. Thanks for the link! -Annie > > This is a little old, and I'm not sure if it's been posted yet. For people who are new to the group (or not new!) this could maybe be helpful...it's about...surprise, borderline parents (mothers specifically): > > http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200707/borderline-walking-the-line > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share Posted February 29, 2012 Thanks a ton for the link! It's a very interesting article! Though I do have a bit of a criticism about it as well as other brief articles like it... it gives great advice for how to try & handle a BPD parent, but, how on earth can most adult survivors of BPD parent/s actually know how to use that advice? I guess I just don't know too many people who have had " crazy " parents who are able to do that. Not sure I know anyone, to be honest! It's all great in theory, but for those of us who have been traumatized by our BPD parent/s, we need to learn to get beyond the trauma & how to function " normally " before we can try to take on a normal stance with a highly abnormal parent. Anyway, just my 2 cents. That's how I feel when I read those types of articles. They're awesome, but frustrating at the same time. It has taken me so long to learn how to communicate with high conflict people, and even now I'm not sure I could do it with my nada. There's good reason I've been NC with her nearly 3 years. Forgive my rant. No reflection on you at all newlife!! Just a general thought. Hope you understand that I am grateful you shared the article, I hadn't read that one before =D Thank you! Mia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 1, 2012 Report Share Posted March 1, 2012 wow, thank you! I'm going to bookmark this and read it later today. good to see this is getting exposure. > > This is a little old, and I'm not sure if it's been posted yet. For people who are new to the group (or not new!) this could maybe be helpful...it's about...surprise, borderline parents (mothers specifically): > > http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200707/borderline-walking-the-line > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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