Thread: Mom disowned me
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Old Sep 11, 2020, 05:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Travelinglady View Post
Just realize that she won't change. Sounds like my mother who was diagnosed by my therapist as having "narcissistic personality disorder with borderline characteristics." But of course, I'm just suggesting she might have something like that, since I'm not trained as that kind of psychiatrist or psychologist.

As you see, she really doesn't want to disown you, but it's a control technique. My mother threatened to leave her sizeable estate to the heart foundation if we didn't do what she wanted--but I managed to distance myself after I got married and my husband was "transferred" across the state. She then relied on my sister.
^ Sounds like someone in my family of origin who hurt me.... all about control. And that dx is ''accurate'' imo for that person too. (in my family of origin) I am also not trained as a psych. (but I have had to observe to ''survive'' (since I was a cub) and its one thing I am ''good at'')



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