I wish I came forward to someone sooner to prevent me getting to the dark place I did. I'd say to anyone else going through a similar thing: You're not alone. It might seem scary or embarrassing to come forwards and tell someone but you need to be brave and take that first step....
a 20-year-old student diagnosed with BPD around July 2020, has always struggled with her mental health, her perception of herself, and her relationship with her emotions. For her, depression and anxiety didn't explain the whole story. "I was feeling so much but pretending to feel so little...
Most people who go on to develop schizoid personality disorder in adulthood had a very difficult childhood. As a result, people with SPD are usually very private, self-sufficient, and reluctant to trust other people. If you want someone with schizoid personality disorder...
The smear campaignhas been called thetrademark of the sociopath, but it is not only sociopaths who exhibit this extraordinarily malicious behavior. Although the author links the distortion campaign to BPD, borderline personality disorder, it is also a characteristic of people who better fit the diagn...
BPD Distortion Campaigns Written by:Rob December 29th, 2008 One of the classic behaviors of a person with Borderline Personality Disorder is the vilification campaign. The target is the person against whom the perpetrator Borderline conducts the vilification. The intent is to destroy the target’s ...
“You’re too sick for me, and I no longer want to hang out. You need to find someone who can handle all your health issues.” “I can’t take thenegativityanymore. Being with you is like being a teenager all over again with someone telling me what to do.” ...
There are two psychological principles that can explain how starting small (e.g., studying more for one psychology exam) can start an upward trajectory that ends in lasting personality change. The first is reinforcement which refers to rewarding experiences that follow our behaviors, increasing the...
A Missouri teenager, Alyssa Bustamante, attended church and got good grades in school. But a troubled childhood and untreated mental health issues opened the door for her unprovoked, inexplicable killing of nine-year-old Elizabeth Olten.
For example, someone with GAD may repeatedly have the thought“What if I don’t get that job and I end up going broke”. The initial appearance of this thought could be conceptualized as an obsession. Someone with GAD might then respond to this obsession by compulsively ruminating about the...
And of course, the mother is much more likely to be the primary caregiver than the father throughout childhood. Brown suggests that this may explain why although only approximately 2% of human genes overall are imprinted, about 35% involved with language are subject to such differential ...