Borderline personality disorder sucks.

I grew up watching the behavior of manipulative adults. Naturally, my own behavior is manipulative. Not because I want to be. But because it's all I know.

Sometimes people will point put my manipulative behavior and only then will I realize it. Then it's too late. They're already pissed and ready to leave me. It's my curse. I can't have a lasting relationship with anyone.

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NeuroticByNature · 41-45, F

When you learn better, do better. Change what you can. We all have things we do because we never knew better. We learn and we grow and we forgive ourselves.

SinlessOnslaught · 26-30, M

@NeuroticByNature Thank you.

Graylight · 51-55, F

Moral and clinical values are conflated judgments of manipulativity, and clinicians and researchers need to clarify when and why manipulative behavior is dysfunctional, and when it is merely morally wrong. Separating these two domains enable carers and loved ones to be more empathetic and less blaming.

Not everything is a symptom all the time.

SinlessOnslaught · 26-30, M

@Graylight I'm not sure what you mean.

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