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My mother and her mother dont speak, she jokingly refers to her mother as "god rest her soul" a title which i am now passing along to her, if this was a happy story, you wouldn't be reading it here. My mother was never officially...

WARNING: What follows is possibly more than you would ever care to know about my life story (although it is only a fraction of what has shaped who I am today). It might be a little depressing and it might make you feel a little...

I am a 32 year old child of a borderline mother....it has taken a brilliant therapist to diagnose her without any contact with her...she is a direct result of my depression, anxiety, and past self-destructive behavior...I am currently...

My mother is borderline. For the longest time, it was difficult to accept this. As i child, if i would venture off on my own there was a paranoid panic to her voice that i should "stay close". She would be loving and comforting one...

Well, today i am 18. Only by happenstance did i come across sites and such because i felt so down and wrong that i was looking for help. The more i read the more i became shocked. what i was reading could have easily come from the pages...

I am currently a 25 year old Psychology major in college.
And it took me until recently to discover why my childhood was so painful and why I feel the need to punish myself even into adulthood.
My mother's emotional roller-coaster...

My mother had me when she was young, 16 to be exact. I never knew my father because she left him when I was a baby. I have repressed many memories from my childhood (like many children of BPD parents have) but I always felt it was my...

First off, I'd just like to say how grateful I am to have found this site. It is incredibly comforting to be able to read about similar experiences and have the opportunity to be able to share my story. I have been working on finding...

I always thought they were just kind of depressed, angry people. I thought everyone lived like I did.... sudden rages, screaming, hitting me, kicking me out the house, lack of nurturing, telling me too much personal information, like...

For years, I grieved my father, or rather, not having a "daddy". Finally one day I realized that i didn't miss him, but the idea of him, the role he didn't fulfill, the hopes and dreams of a little girl who wanted a daddy. It was...

A couple months ago I was given a copy of the book Understanding the Borderline Mother, which I'm sure many of you here are familiar with (and if you're not I would recommend it). I was absolutely blown away by this book. So much of...

I grew up fighting with her, slamming doors, writing in my diary that she is crazy and I hated her. Cried myself to sleep most nights and felt trapped in a horrible place where I was always blamed for things and insulted for no reason...

I was 7 the first time I tried to kill myself. My mother was at work and the other adults in the house were taking a nap. I quietly crept into the kitchen and rummaged through the knife drawer until I found a sharp knife longer than my...

Mixed feelings ... that would be an understatement!
My mom was valedictorian of her high school class of 900. She graduated with a 4.0 GPA. She was class president. She was blonde, blue-eyed and smoking-hot gorgeous (Dad said 'everyone...

It's the hardest thing in the world, fighting the authorities to save your daughter from what I recently found out borderline disorder.
I have read your stories and wish I could have saved you all but in saying that it took two years of...

In middle-age now, a mother myself, my childhood so far behind me, yet i feel stuck and sad and often defeated, hopeless.  My mother died five years ago, and I feel unable to grieve because for so much of my life i'd wished her to die...

I wrote this, originally, for my blog but since that is under my real name and is connected with my professional work, I will post my story here instead. It is by no means complete, but I tried to write all that I could.

I was an...

I am 59 and my BP Mom passed away about 4 years ago. I had been to therapy prior to her death. That was a great help. Unfortunately it has been a little tough kind of rewireing myself without her and that constant pain and stress. When...

Hi not too much detail at present, just a sketch. I have not been drinking myself to death for 9 months now due largely to the fact of my understanding of my childhood experiences in a family crushed by a borderline mother . How that...

My mother has bpd. I decided a little over a year ago that I was done with the relationship. I am almost 30 and couldn't handle her constant need for attention. I could t handle the blame she assigned to me for her problems, her self...