Most of us struggle to get and maintain healthy relationships. For someone with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), it can be even more challenging. People with BPD generally feel emotions quite intensely, and that can lead to overwhelming feelings in relationships. They might also struggle with...
But sadly, people suffering from such a disorder do not have this filter to know when they are wanted and when not. This can cause the already strenuous relationship more strain as people start to feel suffocated, like they cannot even feel something without being interrogated. People sufferin...
While most mothers have a fierce maternal instinct to soothe their babies when they cry, emotionally detached ones often don't. Fifty years ago, my mother (like many others) followed the advice of John Watson, a behavioral psychologist who warned that showering an infant with atten...
Parallel to the attachment system is the caregiving system, which motivates individuals to provide care, comfort, and protection to those who are vulnerable. This system is especially evident in parent-child dynamics, where a parent’s ability to respond empathetically to their child is deeply...
Childhood trauma can, and often does, have a profound impact on healthy emotional development and overall well-being. It’s linked to long-term consequences and increases the risk of poor mental health and substance abuse. Someresearch suggeststhat children who experience trauma are twice as likely...
Look at the stick and declare, “This relationship is over.” Then break the stick in half, leave the pieces on the ground, walk away, and never look back. This finalizes the ceremony of closure. Learning to set healthy boundaries, or if necessary complete breaks, with those ...
So then I had a relationship with my ex-husband he was asking me for a baby we had a, It just didn't do any good because we didn't have a good relationship. He was always fighting with me. So I decided to leave the country when my son was two years of age. ...
You might want them toseethe self-defeating and other-harming consequences of their behavior, but the fact is many disturbed charactersalreadysee, they justdisagree. Because I’ve made a career of understanding and dealing with responsibility-challenged people and have written about them extensively,...
“Why are they being mean to me?” “What have I done?!” “I can’t sleep. I need to sleep!” On and on, it goes in alooping sound wavein my brain, especially as I try to sleep. This isn’t healthy, and it’s not even very real. Many of my thoughts are “bipolar-genera...
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