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How do I deal with my BPD wife?
Finding Relief if You’re Facing Relationship Problems Due to Borderline Personality Disorder
- Seek out information.
- Get help.
- Practice healthy communication.
- Ask open-ended questions.
- Talk only when your partner is calm.
- Offer support.
- Avoid labeling or blaming.
- Take threats seriously.
Do psychiatrists treat BPD?
Patients with BPD may do better not only with, but even without, psychiatric treatment. Further, it is also now known that general psychiatrists can treat most patients with BPD successfully, even if they have not had extensive, specialized training. Basic approaches for general psychiatrists have been published.
Why don’t we recognize the behaviors of women with BPD?
The reason we do not recognize the behaviors of a woman with BPD as stemming from common female traits is because they are in a more extreme form. We will find that when we see these traits in the average female, they seem normal to us. But when we encounter an extreme version of them, they confuse us and we experience them as strange and unusual.
Why can’t a woman with BPD apologize to you?
The reason the woman with traits of BPD cannot apologize to you is because in order to do it she would have to admit she did something wrong. Admitting she did something wrong causes her such terrible humilation and guilt that she must change the story of what happened in order to be able to live with herself.
How accurate are armchair diagnoses of BPD?
Several things came up, which is why armchair diagnosis is not good and rarely accurate, but he kept coming back to BPD. Despite not ever knowing anything about BPD, I heard *personality disorder* and immediately recoiled, accusing him of gaslighting. Six months later, while he was sleeping in bed, I took a BPD aptitude test.
Do people with BPD seek attention?
Now let’s look at BPD and apply that same logic, yes we seek attention, there is fear of abandonment, we have what is called an FP (favorite person) of whom we attach our existence to and rely on for emotional validation, we have trouble regulating our moods, splitting, identity confusion, and intense emotion.