Today i met with a wonderful mum who is learnng to live with her daughter. Her daughter has all the markers of a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder; she is hugely unstable emotionally, switches from "loving to hating" in a moment, has intense and often negative romantic emotions and has a history of harming herself. This mum is learning to respond with simplicity, with acceptance and with kindness. She is learning to not "react" to statements or behaviors designed to inflame the situation. She is learning to hold her daughter's emotions "lightly" without becoming emotionally involved with them. She is also learning to protect herself from the hurtful words that come her way. She is learning boundaries. A bit like counselling really...
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