When a partner, spouse or girlfriend has Borderline Personality Disorder
Are you angry, hurt, confused? Concerned that your spouse, your boyfriend or your girlfriend has Borderline Personality Disorder traits and trying to understand what it all means?
There are no easy answers. A relationship with a partner with Borderline Personality Disorder is challenging and requires a great deal of strength, patience, and knowledge. Read more:
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What Does it Take to Be in a Relationship
Short of having an emotional crisis, it is generally a family's careful and delicate coaching over time that will bring someone into treatment. And most individuals that have recovered from borderline personality disorder will...allperspective -
Characteristics of Healthy Relationships
Healthy relationships are characterized by respect, sharing and trust. They are based on the belief that both partners are equal, that the power and control in the relationship are equally shared.Some of the characteristics of a h...allperspective -
Anosognosia and Getting a "Borderline" into Therapy
What can we do? Loved ones will devise illogical and bizarre explanations for symptoms stemming from their illness and have a compulsion to prove to others that they are not ill, despite negative consequences of doing so.allpsychologyperspectivevideos -
I think it's Borderline Personality Disorder, but how can I know?
The answer is that there is no blood test or simple check list for personality disorders. To evaluate someone in your life requires learning about the disorders and getting a good sense of the persons emotional "lifetime" - how th...allpsychologyperspective -
Is Your Relationship Breaking Down?
There is no single reason why a relationship begins to break down. However, once a relationship does start to break down, there is a predictable sequence of events that tends to occur. Are you on this path? The first stage...allpsychologyperspective -
Escaping Conflict and the Karpman Drama Triangle
When people find themselves in conflict with another person, they will reach out to a third person creating a triangle. While often a stabilizing factor, triangulation can also be very destabilizing - causing more turmoil and esc...allpsychologyperspective -
Depression: Stop Being Tortured by Your Own Thoughts
What is Depression?Feeling down from time to time is a normal part of life, but when emotions such as hopelessness and despair take hold and just won't go away, you may have depression. Mild to moderate depression makes it tough t...allpsychology -
Why We Struggle in Our Relationships
Have you struggled in a relationship that had an inherent turbulence and chaos that never resolved. Here we break down the interpersonal dynamics at play in a relationship involving a person with Borderline Personality Disorder.allpsychology -
Borderline Personality Disorder and Physical Abuse
When one partner has traits of Borderline Personality Disorder, physical intimidation takes place three times more often than in other relationships. In 21% of the relationships, the hitting was reported to be reciprocal. Borderl...allperspective -
Codependency and Codependent Relationships
A funny thing about codependency is that when you are so focused on the another person, they become focused on themselves, too. Much of the love and intimacy in a codependent relationship is experienced in the context of one pers...allpsychology -
Emotional Blackmail: Fear, Obligation and Guilt (FOG)
Fear, obligation and guilt are the transactional dynamics at play when we feel that we are being controlled by others. Controlling or being controlled is a transaction between two people with both playing a part; the "controller"...allpsychology -
DSM Definition: Borderline Personality Disorder
Read the complete and unabridged classification of Borderline Personality Disorder as published by the American Psychiatric Association. This is a rare look at the definition used by professionals to ensure uniform diagnosis.psychology -
DSM Definition: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
The "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders," is a comprehensive classification of officially recognized psychiatric disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association , for use by mental health profession...allpsychology -
DSM Definition: Narcissistic Personality Disorder
The "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders," is a comprehensive classification of officially recognized psychiatric disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association , for use by mental health profession...psychology
