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12 May 2009, 5:31 pm

Gina, your mother sounds a lot like mine. And she too, would team up with my eldest half-brother. I could do nothing right, and if I needed anything she would accuse me of being selfish. When I grew up, I learned that she had a mental problem known as Borderline Personality disorder, with Narcissistic as a subset. While it didn't excuse a lot, it explained it. And my eldest half brother is a sociopath.


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12 May 2009, 9:52 pm

hartzofspace wrote:
Gina, your mother sounds a lot like mine. And she too, would team up with my eldest half-brother. I could do nothing right, and if I needed anything she would accuse me of being selfish. When I grew up, I learned that she had a mental problem known as Borderline Personality disorder, with Narcissistic as a subset. While it didn't excuse a lot, it explained it. And my eldest half brother is a sociopath.


http://cubedemon.blogspot.com/2009/04/m ... es_13.html

Hartzofspace, You just helped to comfirm my point. These types of people are using excellent values and bad values to do blame in an indirect way. I believe it's a form of gaslighting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting



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12 May 2009, 9:57 pm

Gina, If you're brother and mother are like hartzofspace's mother and brother then you need to be very careful with them.



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12 May 2009, 10:08 pm

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I will suggest counselling to her, or maybe I'll talk to the school counsellor first.


Be careful how you suggest the counseling, Gina. If you make it sound like you need her to accompany you to "your" counseling, instead of implying that it's her who needs counseling, as well, it might work.

I can still hear my mother's reaction to counseling, when I bought it up in my teens. According to her, she didn't have any issues at all, it was myself who had the problems. :roll:


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12 May 2009, 10:18 pm

hartzofspace wrote:
gina-ghettoprincess wrote:
I will suggest counselling to her, or maybe I'll talk to the school counsellor first.


Be careful how you suggest the counseling, Gina. If you make it sound like you need her to accompany you to "your" counseling, instead of implying that it's her who needs counseling, as well, it might work.

I can still hear my mother's reaction to counseling, when I bought it up in my teens. According to her, she didn't have any issues at all, it was myself who had the problems. :roll:


I agree 100%.