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Thank for this thread! I was just given this diagnosis this past Monday and left to figure it out on my own. This has been helpful. I do struggle daily with moods, emotions, paranoid thinking and always knew something was wrong with me. That I was broken. I feel, inside, that it is biological, something misfiring in my brain. Not something I can control or a personality issue. I also always wished my moods would just be stable/even keeled. So tiring the roller coaster of moods/emotions daily, hourly. I am amazed I carved out a normal looking life and I do contribute it to a VERY calm husband that knows how to stable me instead being wounded and making the situation worse.
Sorry if I am ranting.
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When a child’s emotional needs are not met and a child is repeatedly hurt and abused, this deeply and profoundly affects the child’s development. Wanting those unmet childhood needs in adulthood. Looking for safety, protection, being cherished and loved can often be normal unmet needs in childhood, and the survivor searches for these in other adults. This can be where survivors search for mother and father figures. Transference issues in counseling can occur and this is normal for childhood abuse survivors.
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