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Title: Forcing therapy Post by: captain5024 on October 01, 2022, 01:36:25 PM If BPD is strongly suspected and the disordered person refuses treatment, is it possible to make treatment conditional? For example, no treatment, no relationship. Giving the BPD the choice of the only way to continue the relationship is through treatment.
How should this be discussed with the BPD? Title: Re: Forcing therapy Post by: ForeverDad on October 01, 2022, 02:39:54 PM no treatment, no relationship Well, that is surely one way to set a Boundary. That is, your boundary. Read the boundary topics here on our Tools and Skills board here (https://bpdfamily.com/message_board/index.php?topic=329744.0). In other words, you can't force a pwBPD to behave differently, but you can set a boundary on yourself ("I will leave") if you are to continue the relationship. That said, that idea reminds me of the old saying, You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. So your spouse attends therapy. What if the behaviors don't improve? You can't fix her, likely also because you're in the closest of relationships. BPD is most evident in closer relationships. She would have to want to recover for herself (and to a lesser extent for others too) and stick with it for life, that's a very hard task to accomplish. Title: Re: Forcing therapy Post by: I Am Redeemed on October 02, 2022, 08:16:18 AM Agree with FD. Therapists can provide tools and skills for a person but it's up to the individual to use them.
Title: Re: Forcing therapy Post by: captain5024 on October 02, 2022, 02:28:41 PM Understood. Are their any methods to get the mentally ill to see and accept their illness?
I was diagnosed with NPD years ago. It was a relief, because I was miserable, I didn’t understand my dysfunctional behavior and needed help. It seems like I’m one of the lucky few that are open to this, more often than not Cluster Bs are shutdown indefinitely? Title: Re: Forcing therapy Post by: I Am Redeemed on October 02, 2022, 03:33:01 PM It is hard for a lot of people with a variety of mental health challenges to accept that they need help, to ask for help, and even to persist at the hard work of recovery.
Cluster B disorders do tend to have a lack of awareness about their issues. Not always, but often. Here's an article that might help: https://bpdfamily.com/content/how-to-get-borderline-into-therapy (https://bpdfamily.com/content/how-to-get-borderline-into-therapy) |