Stop Walking on Eggshells

I wanted to say thank you to Randi Kreger for this series on Narcissts and Borderlines and their similarities/differences. I am pretty sure my mother had Borderline and my father may even be both borderline and narcisstic. Every article you post helps me learn a little more, and helps me heal a little more as well.

i would love to hear more about invisable BPD's. I read enough about low functioning BDP's in my classes ect. I find the high functioning personality disordered individuals to be more manupulative,smart, and tend to do more damage because they are able to actually get other nons to defend them.

I wanted to mention that sometimes a person with BPD will be identified as an addict and be treated for substance abuse when the underlying emotional disorder is not treated. This rarely works. I know a young woman with BPD who is also a heroin user. She uses the heroin for pain management and only feels "normal" when using. There was a recent study about u-opoids and borderline personality disorder that showed lower baseline levels of u-opoids in the brain of a borderline and higher receptor activity. The combination seems to explain pain management techniques such as self-injury and opiate abuse. The underlying disorder must be addressed if the substance abuse can be successfully addressed - at least that's what I have noticed in people with BPD.

Thanks for informative and helpful post, obviously in your blog everything is good.

Carl Balog