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Borderline Personality Disorder

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A mental health diagnosis discussed as potentially just being a medical term for being an asshole, and extensively critiqued through a personal account of living with a BPD parent.

Mentions (10)
"That is literally what my friend in med school told me."
"Marrying/ dating someone with BPD is no joke. They will suck the life out of you. My dad isnt faultless but he deserves better than this and my mum has been manipulating him and all of us our entire lives. Despite how awful she is, selfish, hypochondriac, addicted to prescriptipn meds, hateful my da"
Do not marry a partner with BPD · u/FlashyKardashy · ↑341 · 2024-01-22
"I know the term BPD gets thrown around pretty loosely, but this is a genuine case. Someone who constantly needs attention and deeply fears loneliness, yet cannot comprehend how her actions do nothing but push people away."
Resident passed away at the psych-ward I work at · u/jiccc · ↑187 · 2024-09-14
"You could call it borderline personality disorder, complex PTSD, emotional neglect, an attachment disorder, whatever. People carry around their mental health diagnoses like badges, and I try not to do that, but one of those probably accurately describes what I've been struggling with."
"for me it was my best friend in highschool who YES had Borderline PD. we both had troubled home lives and were so so enmeshed. but we were literally so emboldened by each other we would do crazy shit just high on life. she was probably BPD mirroring my ego of course"
anyone else have a lost friendship that they never 100% got over · u/extragoodday · ↑139 · 2023-09-11
"Alpert told me about a client who insisted that his girlfriend had borderline personality disorder, a rare and serious mental illness. When Alpert asked the man why he thought that, the client said, 'Well, she gets so emotional when we argue,' Alpert said. 'And come to find out, he had Googled borde"
Why Couples Therapists Are Sick of 'Therapy-Speak' · u/OJ_Soprano · ↑123 · 2025-12-13
"He also forgets everything about his past and hasn't been home for 3 years lol. I can't help but think he's going through a major mental health issue like Borderline personality or something"
"Just had our first team meeting. Still a little bewildered at why exactly they wanted a neurobiologist, isn't Borderline Personality Disorder more a psychologist's domain? Whatever, a check's a check."
Absolute Personality Disorder · u/just-a-jape · ↑32 · 2021-05-28
"Just had our first team meeting. Still a little bewildered at why exactly they wanted a neurobiologist, isn't Borderline Personality Disorder more a psychologist's domain?"
Absolute Personality Disorder · u/just-a-jape · ↑32 · 2021-05-28
"For those of you with actual BPD mothers (borderline personality disorder) the best way to survive when you're together is just to agree and change the subject if it comes to a point of contention."
Surviving with BPD mother no joke · u/lafyfi · ↑20 · 2023-11-13
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