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Author Topic: Support groups in Colorado (Denver, Aurora, Centennial, etc)?  (Read 471 times)
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What is your sexual orientation: Straight
Who in your life has "personality" issues: Romantic partner
Relationship status: Married
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« on: December 11, 2019, 09:36:33 PM »

Hi,

I could not find the exact topic by searching... so if this question is have been asked before, I apologize for the redundancy. 

Does anyone know support groups, both for sufferers and for their significant others in Colorado? Denver, Aurora or Centennial?

I need to find some help at least for myself if I cannot convince my husband to go.
It has to be a free of charge type of place or group.
He would not allow me to spend money for anything like that.

My husband exhibits some traits of BPD/NPD.
We have been in a therapy, and even the therapist agrees with me on this, so I don't think I am too far off though I am not an expert.

He takes so many things personally and has very intense emotional reactions.
He often yells at me and one of our kids with autism, and he goes off on us, well mostly me, until I am not able to say anything from crying.
Outside of our home, he is much more polite, "nice" and reliable than an average person.

He talked about his abusive mother.
He does admit he has "a bad temper" and tends to take things personally, but he snickers at me if I bring up "depression" or some underlying psychological problems, like BPD or NPD.
He even argues I have BPD/NPD...
I am no way near perfect, but my problems are a whole other story.

He is very intelligent and a superb persuasive writer and talker.
I don't know why he is not a lawyer.
As you probably notice, English is my second language but that does not stop him from nitpicking every single word, and accusing me for the reasons of the word choice that he does not like.

For years, I thought if I explain my feelings and emotions better, he would understand...
I am exhausted from talking to him.
He has seen a psychologist after I begged him, but it seems that he mostly talked about his difficulty controlling "temper" and how to deal with our autistic child.

He might not have anything server to get diagnosed but I am pretty sure he is at least depressed.
But I am not at all surprised by that his psychologist even thought he was too hard on himself knowing how he is with other people.

I guess, in my clumsy attempt to describe him, I am trying to say, I don't exactly know how he should be categorized if that is even necessary.

I contacted a local (Arapahoe County) NAMI and received information on support groups.
I am wondering if they are right for me or him if I even could convince him to go since they do not seem specific to BPD/NPD.
Does anybody have some experience with the Colorado NAMI group?

Thank you for reading my post.
I appreciate if anyone could share some information for Denver, Aurora, Centennial area support groups.
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