I Am the Child of a Borderline Parent

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...

My sister was diagnosed with bpd and has a 3 year old son. She lives with my mother, who is an alcoholic, and her 3 year old. My sister is 31 and I am 28. I have a 2 and a half year old daughter and our children love each other.

I...

My mom was not diagnosed with mental illness until I was about 16, at which point she was diagnosed as depressed, then bi-polar, then borderline. Most of my memories of childhood are happy; but there is a lot I don't remember. I...

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...

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...

I'm sure some of you read my story that I posted last week about finding out that my mom has BPD. I thought that keeping that in mind when I communicate with her would make things easier on me, but recently I have been having such a...

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...

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...

If you have stuff you want to talk about or vent about, feel free to contact me. I usually am the listener in my crowd and don't mind it. I tend to really want to hear people's stories and experiences.No judgments. I am also pretty open...

I am a beautiful, good-hearted, compassionate and empathic person. I am an educated professional. I have many friends and several close friends. But I am plagued by low self-esteem, insecurity, thought distortions and negativity, anger...

My mother was diagnosed with BPD while she was in the hospital recovering from a stroke. Several years prior I did research and began to wonder if her rages and irrational behavior were due to mental illness, I was right. Her abuse has...

I am one of 4 children. I have 2 younger brothers and 1 older sister. My father passed away from brain cancer a little over 2 years ago and my BPD mother is now remarried.

Where to begin. I thought my family was normal. I know that my...

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...

For the past 20 years I have dealt with my mom having BPD. No one has ever diagnosed her of this because to her going to talk to a therapist means your crazy and something is wrong with you. Her irrational, manipulative, and abusive...

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...

I'm now learning the devastating results my mom's actions have had on me. However, that will have to be dealt with later. Right now is full fear for my life mode. I am 39.8 years old, and was forced to move back in with my mom after...

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...

I always knew I had a mom that was "irrational". She was always yelling and crying about how things weren't good enough. Always angry for one reason or another... I didn't get good enough grades, I didn't clean my room properly, I didn...

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...