Where I Never Meant to Be

Tag: BPD

Projective identification and mentalisation

Post author By Ashana
Post date April 3, 2021
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I feel better and also worse after my last post. I don’t know what to make of the issues I was pondering, including issues of place and belonging, that I did not directly touch on to write my last post. It did not make my life better to work out the issues I raised with […]

Tags adult children, Attachment, borderline personality disorder, BPD, disorganised attachment, distorted thinking, emotion regulation, family trauma, healing, identity disorders, trauma

Mentalisation

Emotional skin

I recall with particular horror one warm, weekend afternoon with all of us sitting in the livingroom while my mother threw pills in her mouth that she did not swallow, but said she would. It was purely for show, but she was serious about expressing something.

Tags adult children, borderline personality disorder, BPD, disorganised attachment, family trauma, healing, mental illness

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