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 Rake

Joined: 3/12/2005
Msg: 1
Ever date someone with BPD? (Borderline Personality Disorder) [CLOSED Thread]
Posted: 6/13/2005 9:19:51 PM
I was wondering if anyone had dated or is currently in a relationshiop with someone with BPD and if so what are some of your experiences, how do you cope? how did it end up?
 Frrosty

Joined: 3/21/2004
Msg: 2
Ever date someone with BPD? (Borderline Personality Disorder)
Posted: 6/13/2005 9:21:56 PM


Who have I dated who does NOT have this condition!!??

Many times, my friend, they are WAY over the line.

 Rake

Joined: 3/12/2005
Msg: 3
Ever date someone with BPD? (Borderline Personality Disorder)
Posted: 6/13/2005 9:23:43 PM
why do you think you are attracted to someone with BPD?
 Frrosty

Joined: 3/21/2004
Msg: 4
Ever date someone with BPD? (Borderline Personality Disorder)
Posted: 6/13/2005 9:41:46 PM
The challenge probably.

I like to be "the rock" for my women.
 Rake

Joined: 3/12/2005
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Ever date someone with BPD? (Borderline Personality Disorder)
Posted: 6/13/2005 9:49:36 PM
and I bet they love your ROCK frosty....
 shore66

Joined: 5/23/2004
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Ever date someone with BPD? (Borderline Personality Disorder)
Posted: 6/13/2005 9:54:00 PM
I was with a guy who was "maybe" BPD -had a therapist say she couldn't treat him because she thought he was, but no formal diagnosis.


But honestly, when I looked it up, it seemed like each of us had some of the characteristics...so maybe that explained it, 2 halves trying to make a whole. (He had more symptoms than I did, though!!!!!)
 Japhus

Joined: 5/28/2005
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Ever date someone with BPD? (Borderline Personality Disorder)
Posted: 6/18/2005 10:24:28 AM
X is Paranoid Schizophrenic and Manic Depressive both...although they didn't become evident until after the marriage. Stuck with it for 8 years because I believed medical science actually could do something for her at the time...so naive I was.

I'd never go back to that life again and won't take on anyone with a mental illness.
 cuterguy

Joined: 5/28/2005
Msg: 8
Ever date someone with BPD? (Borderline Personality Disorder)
Posted: 6/18/2005 10:29:27 AM
See what marrage can do to a woman?? :)

I believe mental disorders are really natural feelings and behaviors we have, but are exagerated to the point of not being well rounded.
 Nu West Guy

Joined: 5/15/2004
Msg: 9
Ever date someone with BPD? (Borderline Personality Disorder)
Posted: 6/18/2005 10:36:49 AM
yes it happen once every 3 week s for a week. i needed a helmet to survive.
 airplane_geek

Joined: 5/9/2005
Msg: 10
Ever date someone with BPD? (Borderline Personality Disorder)
Posted: 6/18/2005 5:28:59 PM
"Who have I dated who does NOT have this condition!!??"

It's getting to be not funny anymore.....
 ms_kitty

Joined: 5/28/2005
Msg: 11
Ever date someone with BPD? (Borderline Personality Disorder)
Posted: 6/18/2005 7:22:29 PM
true borderline personality disorder is one of the most difficult psychiatric disorders to treat successfully. from http://www.palace.net/~llama/psych/bpd.html

Traits involving relationships
7. Unstable, chaotic intense relationships characterized by splitting (see below).
8. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment

Splitting: the self and others are viewed as "all good" or "all bad." Someone with BPD said, "One day I would think my doctor was the best and I loved her, but if she challenged me in any way I hated her. There was no middle ground as in like. In my world, people were either the best or the worst. I couldn't understand the concept of middle ground."
Alternating clinging and distancing behaviors (I Hate You, Don't Leave Me). Sometimes you want to be close to someone. But when you get close it feels TOO close and you feel like you have to get some space. This happens often.
Great difficulty trusting people and themselves. Early trust may have been shattered by people who were close to you.
Sensitivity to criticism or rejection.
Feeling of "needing" someone else to survive
Heavy need for affection and reassurance
Some people with BPD may have an unusually high degree of interpersonal sensitivity, insight and empathy

Educate yourself and make your choices wisely. Good luck.
 Rake

Joined: 3/12/2005
Msg: 12
Ever date someone with BPD? (Borderline Personality Disorder)
Posted: 7/3/2005 9:45:34 PM
yes it happen once every 3 week s for a week. i needed a helmet to survive.


Nu West Guy - thank you for that, I'm still laughing my a$$ off....plus you riding that bike backwards didnt make matters any better..... lmao



"Who have I dated who does NOT have this condition!!??"

It's getting to be not funny anymore.....


Airplane, man I FEEL YOUR PAIN....lol

Thanks for the linky MS Kitty!
 BorderlinesMom

Joined: 12/11/2005
Msg: 13
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Posted: 12/14/2005 3:28:34 AM
It was a wash. Anyhoot..
 -Aussie Buff-

Joined: 11/28/2005
Msg: 14
Ever date someone with BPD? (Borderline Personality Disorder)
Posted: 12/14/2005 3:44:08 AM
My ex had it - she asked me to marry her 3 times in the 2 years we were together - i always said yep it will happen relax - the day i asked her to marry me valentines day 2004 - she dumped me - didnt know about it till later on from a psychologist that knows us both .
 Eowyn

Joined: 10/19/2003
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Posted: 12/14/2005 4:25:57 AM
Dated one? I lived with one for 15 years. My advice, run as far and as fast as you can. You will never, ever, know the real them because their *is* no real them, just a series of personas, and one day you may come home to find yourself living w/a very scary stranger. My ex tried to have the pet wolf we'd raised together killed to get back at me when I wouldn't sign over the house in the divorce; we're talking about the man who the wolf thought of as 'daddy', who was the reason that the wolf knew the word 'Burgerville'.
 BorderlinesMom

Joined: 12/11/2005
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Ever date someone with BPD? (Borderline Personality Disorder)
Posted: 12/14/2005 4:32:17 AM

didnt know about it till later on from a psychologist that knows us both .
I'm sorry to hear that..did your psychologist tell you that you were working out a little too much?
 netdates4humanshit

Joined: 1/10/2006
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Ever date someone with BPD? (Borderline Personality Disorder)
Posted: 1/13/2006 12:22:24 AM
Interesting subject

When I first met a man with it I told a nurse friend .. she said " hit the ground running "

I didnt - I thought this was a shallow and mean comment and perspective on a Illness - 2 years later with more understanding and experience of this Illness, and NOT even having a clue who It was I dated - yes they have multiple personalities and just create themselves to be what you want - for a time till you fall hard for them - then they have no problems freeing the Jeckyl factor haha - I wish I had.

I lost 2 years of my life with this mans head games ect - I could go Into the situation but believe me truth Is stranger than fiction here - this man has 13 false dating site profiles and msn accounts that i know off - complete with pictures and life stories - so yer sure I met the one he had with his real picture - but end of day how would I know that was him? Not possible as Im sute many believe hes the doctor - the lawyer - the security guard.


HIT THE GROUND RUNNING AND DONT EVEN TAKE THE CHANCE OF LOSING TIME TO GLANCE BACK!!

Sorry to offend anyone with the Illness as I am sure there are different levels of It the same as any Illness - maybe my experience was out of the normal - but Ive spent a lot of time on support sites during the experience - and It seems many MANY other people had very similar experiences.

If you are going to date them - Id look Into It fully first - dont just assume its mood swings as I did - as mood swings I couldve handled with him - no matter how extreme - but flase personalities and other things too many to go Into here I couldnt - and didnt even know came with the package.

Anyways Im here now fishing haha so I hope I catch me a good salmon this time hahaha
 Ready Teddy

Joined: 1/16/2007
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Ever date someone with BPD? (Borderline Personality Disorder)
Posted: 1/20/2007 12:39:52 PM
"Sensitivity to criticism or rejection.
Feeling of "needing" someone else to survive
Heavy need for affection and reassurance"


Describes me to a T. Have yet to seek counselling as that can be rather expensive and I don't have the coin to do that. So...I try to deal with it as best as I can. Not pretty at times I must say. Married for 28 years and she probably grew pretty tired of me after that many years. Guess I don't blame her.

My 2 cents worth
 soulmagic16

Joined: 8/14/2006
Msg: 19
Ever date someone with BPD? (Borderline Personality Disorder)
Posted: 1/20/2007 1:07:59 PM
yes i agree with you..the woman i was with would say shes in love..never happier or more content...next day becuase of a question i asked she flips out runs ..and ads strange men to her hotmail.........they need the reasurance of men and are very needy..they cant be alone ..i thuoght i knew her lying in bed beside her spending most days and nites together...but once theres a bit of conflict or she felt someone was getting to close to finding out her private world..she was irational and everything to her was just superficial..on the surface...she became very distant and cold.....very scary...it was like i didnt even know her....she was capable of doing anything to the extreme.....no warmth or heart...it was like i was a complete stranger....and 24 hours earlier we were intimite and held each other all nite.......so yes run run you cant change these peole..
 floridalady

Joined: 10/25/2005
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Ever date someone with BPD? (Borderline Personality Disorder)
Posted: 1/20/2007 1:30:53 PM
I have one now that sends me messages on Yahoo Messenger. I want to find out how I can stop him from harrassing me dailey. He just doesn't get it that I'm not interested in him. We met and it didn't work so I want this insanity to stop.
 onehope

Joined: 1/17/2007
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Ever date someone with BPD? (Borderline Personality Disorder)
Posted: 1/21/2007 5:54:06 PM
oh ya, this one had MANY personalities 1]the nice guy that spoke with kind words, kind heart 2} the ***hole , seems he realized he was not going to get laid or his****sucked so he became verbally abusive WITH threats Wow, some people are just that messed up and using a dating service.
 ChicklitSmile

Joined: 1/14/2007
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Posted: 1/21/2007 6:09:05 PM
roll: Meaning they almost have a personality? Yeah, sure. In fact I was married to one. I'm sorry. I can't stop the gut-busting laughter here. And you all might know me by now-- I do try to be serious and respectful, but that's just too funny of a thread headline-- even for POF forums. still ...........
Oh, owieeee, my stomach hurts.....ok, I'm tryng to get control..........." it's getting better.....ok, calming down here...oh oh boy....
Wheww....wow....there, much better...
As I'm certain that you have posted the question with utmost sincerity, I apologize, Rake. To correct the error of my ways, I will read the whole yarn -- of thread-- and see what your problem is.

B)
 *snoogins*

Joined: 12/8/2006
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Posted: 1/22/2007 1:14:47 PM
Although I didn't read every post,there were many good points made,gave me some things to think about.
Most of us have or will deal with some sort of mental instability at one time in our lives,we live in stressful times,it's easy to end up with an anxiety disorder or social disorder,and your plain garden variety depression is very common,many of us have been depressed and might not even have known it.
I worry about the stigma and stereotype attatched to mental illness.While I am sure there are many people who have had bad relationships or experiences with people who happened to have some sort of mental illness, that doesn't mean that the illness in question caused the problem.The misinformation and misunderstanding of mental illness is what keeps many of us from getting help,for fear that someone may find out...it's disappointing to see adults over-generalizing like school kids,at our age we should be above judging someone for something that they have no control over,no one chooses to suffer from a mental illness.
Avoiding or looking down upon someone for having a mental illness is as ridiculous as avoiding or looking down on someone for having asthma,or an allergy to peanuts,it's all just genetics.
*Unless of course,that person is just an a$$hole......
 nomenome

Joined: 9/7/2006
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Ever date someone with BPD? (Borderline Personality Disorder)
Posted: 1/22/2007 4:37:05 PM
I haven't, and apologize to those I don't wish to offend, when I say I hopefully never will. I already have people like that in my life, and the drama is way too much to bear as it is - don't think I could take another one in my personal space like that. Sorry.
 cwazychickie

Joined: 12/29/2006
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Ever date someone with BPD? (Borderline Personality Disorder)
Posted: 1/22/2007 5:07:47 PM
Does it count if i've dated a guy who lead me to borderline personality disorder? :D lol!

Seriously, one of my exes drove me to the point of wanting to bang my head into a wall.
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