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Living with a Partner’s Personality Disorder
Personality disorders are likely over-diagnosed once a person actually gets to a psychologist. That’s what I read these days.
I am not so sure about that. But, no matter if that is true or not, what I think is that we have an epidemic of people who never learned about taking personal responsibility for any of their choices.
Their mommies made everything better for too long, their coaches gave them a trophy anyway, or they have a sick need to be a victim and can twist a story to make it “so”.
I am a firm believer that personality disorders are both treatable and manageable…if and only if the person with the mental illness takes responsibility for their part of the equation. And that, my friends, is not what usually happens.
My own personal experience has taught me a lot about mental illness. I have one. I have diagnosed CPTSD. That is compounded with a neurological disorder and the fact that I was born an Empath. That is with capital E because it is a primary characteristic of mine…not something I can turn on and off.
I use the word “manageable” above with regard to mental illness because I am trying to imagine a world where we diagnose and treat, instead of stigmatize, mental illness. Maybe we, in fact, learn to look at it as any other chronic illness. Many of us…
