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Iām starting to get really
bleeping triggered over her implications that domestic abuse victims confronting
physical violence are the only people deserving of taking legal action against their abusers.
My father has physically harmed me, sure, but he has verbally abused me for 15 years, and Iāll go so far as to say thatāin my personal situationāthe latter caused more damage to me than the former. It has been proven already that verbal violence can inflict the same degree of psychological harm as physical violence.
Sheās REALLY out here disparaging and delegitimizing the trauma of verbal abuse victims, simply because she doesnāt think that āupsetting peopleā (with some of the WORST verbal abuse I have EVER witnessed) is much of a big deal. Alice, you
bleep, you didnāt merely āupsetā them. You DEGRADED them. You DEVALUED them. And you FRIGHTENED them. Donāt downplay the damage of your emotional instability to illustrate yourself as some kind of victim in this. Donāt minimize the impact of the harm youāve committed.
I just need to get this off of my chest as it has been battering me for weeks: she has BPD. She has NPD for goddamn SURE, but she has BPD. Itās untreated. Sheās not receiving help. THIS is what untreated BPD can turn into at its worst. Iām positive now. Again, the narcissism is the main player, please donāt mix them up, but THIS degree of emotional dis-regulation is BPD-associated. Iām a Borderline. I know when Iāve found an (untreated) Borderline. You memorize the symptoms and you understand them because youāve lived it.
Iām just beggingāplease donāt respond to this post with tales of your BPD mother or sister-in-law or nephew. Itās just extremely uncomfortable, devaluing, and triggering for me to read in this space; witnessing it in Alice is triggering and upsetting enough. I donāt mean to kickstart a BPD discussion at ALL, as I feel itāll spiral into talking about how terrible Borderlines are, which is awful because there are Borderlines in here. Iām just offering, as someone who should have the right to say it based on lived experience as opposed to witnessing it secondhand: she has BPD. Or at least BPD traits paired with the primary personality disorder of narcissism. Iām sure of it now.
Sheās about to fly off the rails.