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OP here.  Wow.  Thanks for sharing.  I can see where a this is a little bit like my family, but more from my father whom my sister spent very little time around.  So it's still hard for me to understand what her experience could have been that would make her feel this way.  I do know that her descriptions of our family growing up are vastly different from my own recollections.  I don't know if that's attributable to our age difference or what, but it's always baffled me.  We fought as siblings, but nothing more dramatic than what lots of siblings do - but I wonder if her experience of that was somehow different because of how little she was and the fact that my father was absent from the picture.  I do know her perception of what family relationships "should" be like (her word) is a lot like what you wrote in bold.  [/quote]

OK, Former here. A few things you should realize, one is that there is a strong genetic component to BPD that your sister may have that you don't. Doesn't mean she was bound to get it if she did inherit the tendency, just that genes play a huge role.

So she could "interpret" conflict and rejection differently that a "normally" wired brain. You may have been able to brush things aide because you have a healthy coping mechanism, while hers is wired wrong.

The second issue is that she may possibly have experienced some abuse or violence outside the family that triggered this "cascade" of fears. This is also common for BPDs.[/quote]

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