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Originally Posted by dancinglady
Are u seeing a therapist? Have u come over to the BPD forum. It might be helpful. We can give you support others without BPD can't. We have been here done that.
My children have a restricted relationship with me. This is for their own mental health and sanity. I respect their self protection. It is hard for our children. I was being treated by professionals throughout my entire children's life. I did this so I could be the best parent I could. I did not always work out. I fell and sometimes I did not have a great grip on reality.
Have you done DBT? They also have family groups to help. I don't believe I can ever apologize enough. I had a drunk and naraccistic mother and an emotionally absent father. I had my own abusive/neglected story too.
My children are not ok and the only one to blame is me. Their father died when they were young and left an ill equipped BPD to raise them on my own. I believe I should have never been a mother. I did not have the right equipment. If I had known I would have tried to prevent the pregnancies or give them up for adoption. My diagnosis was TOO late. I love my children with all my heart and always and still want the best for them. The best was and is not ME. I did very wrong and they under no circumstances deserved my mentally ill way of raising them. I accept wherever whenever they want a relationship. If they were to leave my life tomorrow it would hurt badly but I would know it is to protect themselves and I just want them to be healthy and happy and that might mean never seeing me again.
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I was trying to figure out when the BPD forum was this weekend but it didn't say what time zone the listing was and I could find out how to "get there".
I had a psychologist but now I do not trust him because he is offering no suggestions for improvement - he just tells me its too bad my son and I are apart but that's the way it is. He tells me his daughters don't care about him. And in response to my statements of growing thoughts of suicide he suggested that I "take care of myself". it is not my imagination that he has changed. he's supposed to be helping me but now he sees my son privately, supposedly about something other than me but I find that hard to believe and it is my feeling it is against the code of ethics.
I'm trying to find someone new but its tedious and slow having to find someone I can afford who takes my insurance.