Thanks CL!

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Dear Crazy Land:

Thank you very much for your informative and enlightening email. Thanks also

for the book recommendation. I plan to buy or order it today. I read " Walking

on Egg Shells " and bought the workbook yesterday, but I feel I need more

specifics on " Mother's " . I'm really looking for phrases and short blips to have

handy for when she starts losing it. Everything I've read so far says stop and

breath deeply, but by then she has made mincemeat of me! She's quick and fast!

and at time vicious. One very painful time she started to do her BPD thing

attacking my father while trying to solicit my sympathy for her side and all I

could do was to look out the window and sob in pity. Not a pretty picture huh?

With six sibs you can imagine the chaos, and my mother likes to drink,

usually too much at family gatherings. The oldest son is her favorite, and

probably

a BPD too. He has a severe anger management problem, which spirals out of

control when he drinks bourbon especially. Oy vey! What a soap opera huh!

I do have sibs that are nonBPD and they will read the books eagerly. But the

others will think of it as a family betrayal and I can hear them now saying

" how dare you be so disloyal to our mother " . They will say its because I am a

therapist and my oldest brother will tell me to stop trying to be so high and

mighty.

Again, I am so relieved to have found you and the group and it has been very

helpful so far.

Thanks for your input, feedback and advice. It's all greatly appreciated.

Best to all,