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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think I always knew my mom was bipolar. It didn't dawn on me just how bad it had been until I was away from her in college. It impacted me throughout my life. We walked on pins and needles around her. I have a hard trusting that people around me aren't privately seething at me, and going to have some huge outburst over a minor infraction. DH sometimes gets peeved because I slip into a pattern of constantly asking if he is mad at me. I feel like living with my mom made me an incredibly anxious person. I have spent years in therapy undoing the damage.[/quote]

My mom has Borderline Personality Disorder. She was always unstable and I also ask my husband all the time if he's mad at me, or upset with me. I just find it hard to believe everything is okay. He's very patient with me.

I didn't realize full how abnormal my mom was until I left home. Being around normal people made it obvious. I did notice her drinking was bad around 3rd grade but lived in denial mostly. I would say it all affected me since infancy though I couldn't be completely cognizant of it. I remember some pretty violent times from my first memories. It's taken me a lot of grit and 15 years of therapy plus a few years of no contact to remedy some but not all of the damage.

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