r/Offmychest My 50-yo Dad is Marrying His 21-yo NIECE

I’m commenting this here because RSlash has done this a few times, and it gets me annoyed each time: BPD is not bipolar disorder. It’s Borderline Personality Disorder. This and bipolar are two different disorders. Bipolar disorder is related to extreme mood swings with high amounts of mania and depression. BPD is a disorder characterized by a strong fear of abandonment, which makes the person have a series of unhealthy relationships due to their impulsivity and paranoia going above and beyond in the hopes they don’t get abandoned.

Make sure to cover your butt firmly when you fall. According to 95% of patients with something up their butts, the item ended up there as a result of a fall.

Story 1- EMT here- so many fruits and veg that I could start a supermarket, several children’s toys, a miniature wooden baseball bat, and many, many other items.

For the age gap story(story 7), BPD is NOT Bipolar Disorder, Rslash. Some people do mistakenly think that the BPD acronym means Bipolar Disorder, but it doesn't. Bipolar Disorder's acronym is just BD. BPD is Borderline Personality Disorder. It's completely different. Bipolar is mood swings and mania, which can usually be (mostly) handled with medication. Borderline Personality Disorder is an unrelated diagnosis - that's usually born from childhood trauma - and is mostly focused on fear of abandonment leading the sufferer to make illogical(and oftentimes, toxic) decisions in order to not be abandoned, leading to them tending to ruin relationships with friends, partners, and family over and over and over again due to how their brain works. It's a lot more complex than that too, but I can't really put all of that into words. BPD can't be treated by medication(as far as I know), and instead, the sufferer just kind of has to develop coping mechanisms that work for them and hold themselves accountable(which, as someone who suspects they have BPD, each of those are a herculean task, I must say.) Which, I'm pretty sure OP in that post did NOT get the acronyms confused. OP's father leaving the family and then complaining about being lonely is, quite frankly, classic BPD behavior. Considering he refuses to accept he has it, he's actively chosen to not develop any coping skills in order to manage his disorder/brain, which leads to exactly that. Leaving people before they can leave you. Idk about the cousin "manipulating him" though. I don't know them, but like... my (suspected) BPD has told me many times my loved ones don't care about me and actively hate me, and during my low points(+ all the time before I actively started to try to figure out coping skills), I absolutely believed my brain. So like, a second person really isn't needed for someone with BPD to come to that conclusion. She could've just been... supporting his beliefs, though. Which would be the exact opposite of helpful.

Fun fact rslash, in the first story you replace "morbs" with "memories", but "morbs" is actually a real word and wasn't a typo or some kind of mistake that OP made. "Morbs" is another word for experiencing melancholy or depression, but specifically only for a brief period of time. It's derived from the word morbid and I think it was originally just short hand for saying "morbidness"

Bullies never remember; the bullied never forget.

4:46 "Alright, that's enough of this." Immediately reads another.

Me: Oh hell yeah new rslash dropped *Reads title* Me: oh...oh no it's gonna be one of those days

The girl selling her body for her family only to find out that they were wasting money is really sad. The fact that they were using her just because.

yes edit: also, BPD is NOT bipolar disorder.