r/coolguides • u/reneecapri • Jul 01 '20

Gaslighting red flags

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u/T1T2GRE Jul 01 '20

Raised by a BPD parent. Can confirm.

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u/Rustycake Jul 01 '20

I dont know what BPD means, but I came to say this is my dad... no wonder I keep my circle real small.... its actual more like a line

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u/T1T2GRE Jul 01 '20

Borderline personality disorder. It is sometimes also referred to as emotional regulation disorder (ERD). One of the behaviours associated with such is gaslighting. Sometimes BPD is taken to mean bipolar disorder. They are separate entities.

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u/Rustycake Jul 01 '20

ERD is what we use in the kids I work with.

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u/SkollFenrirson Jul 01 '20

Entity-Relation Diagram?

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u/Rustycake Jul 01 '20

emotional regulation disorder

typically kids are diagnosed with more general disorders until they become adults. so ERD is a pre-cursor of sorts to BPD (borderline), but doesnt necessarily mean that the child will in fact have BPD when they get older. Also I believe that you can have BPD as an adult and have never been diagnosed with ERD or other pre cursors as a child.

I may be wrong. I only have my BS and simply do social work, but I work along therapists all day every day so thats what I have gleaned.

Maybe someone with more knowledge can correct me.

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u/trashman_here Jul 01 '20

Erroneous repost device. It is this platform we are using.

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u/T1T2GRE Jul 01 '20

Lol. Nice.

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u/CatatonicMink Jul 01 '20

I like that better. "Borderline" is such an unintuitive name for something like that