Hi Ednamode,
I'd like to welcome you to bpdfamily. I'm glad that you decided to join us.
The lack of emotional support is awful and it's very difficult for family members to understand or even except.
It's difficult for people to traps the erratic and what seems to be illogical behavior. If someone has a broken leg you can clearly see the injury, mental illness is not visible, BPD is an invisible disorder and it's directed at the people closest to a pwBPD. if you're not close to the person then the way that the person conducts themselves is no different then anybody else.
I can understand how invalidating it feels when family members don't understand what you're going through. I wish people would put more effort or be more open minded when it comes to mental illness.
There's a reason why your H acts the way he does it helps to read as much as you can about the disorder you'll quickly see the benefits and become proficient over time.
I am finding it mentally draining at times
What do you do for self care?
What I want to know is, will he recover?
People do recover from BPD . Everyone that suffers from the disorder is different, with different traits and severity along a continuum. If we set the mental illness aside, i'd like to add awarness, just like a non a pwBPD have different levels of awareness. You'd have to sense that there's something wrong about you inside and you'd have want to get better.
A compassionate support system goes a long way, it helps when a pwBPD feel like they're not navigating through this alone, just like us. It helps to share it with someone. BPD is a life long mental illness, there ways that we can accept it and ways to communicate that helps when you're in a r/s with a pwBPD.
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