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November 21, 2017

Characteristics of Professional Victims

Does your spouse blame you for everything that’s wrong in the marriage? Does she or he refuse to take responsibility for their actions, especially the cruel and deceitful ones? Do you frequently feel forced into acts of contrition, like you’re forever obligated to make it up to your partner, girlfriend or boyfriend? If so, you […]

Filed Under: Abuse, Abusive relationships, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Domestic Violence, Healthy Relationships, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Narcissistic abuse, Negative Advocates, Personality Disorders, Professional Victims, Psychological Abuse, Psychology Tagged With: borderline personality disorder, false self, narcissistic abuse, narcissistic personality disorder, narcissists, professional victim, projective identification, psychopaths, victim playing

November 18, 2017

Emotional Labor as Applied to Intimate Relationships: Sliding Off the Slippery Slope

I keep thinking about that self-absorbed, self-indulgent, self-pitying, navel-gazing Gemma Hartley piece of bourgeois privileged women’s faux-oppression porn, Women Aren’t Nags — We’re Just Fed Up published on Harper’s Bazaar. It’s really bothersome. In my opinion, it’s an offense to both reason and reasonableness. Gemma Hartley: Don’t Call her a Whiny Nag — She Has Emotional […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: emotional labor, fed up, Gemma Hartley, martyr, professional victim

July 30, 2014

Going Mental Video: Borderline Personality Disorder Enablers and Apologists

There are therapists who specialize in treating individuals with characterological disorders who are realistic about the prognosis and, depending on the severity of the case and commitment to change, can help an individual with these problems, such as Borderline Personality Disorder, develop better impulse control, reality testing and how to consider other’s feelings and needs […]

Filed Under: Abuse, Abusive relationships, Abusive relationships, Borderline Personality Disorder, Dating, Divorce, Domestic Violence, False Allegations, Financial Abuse, Healthy Relationships, High-Conflict, Judicial Abuse, Marriage, Negative Advocates, Parental Alienation, Personality Disorders, Physical Abuse, Professional Victims, Psychological Abuse, Psychology, Rage, Relationships, Sexual Abuse, Stalking and Harassment Tagged With: abuse, abused men, abusive women, apologists, borderline personality disorder, borderline wife, BPD, BPD ex-wife, bpd girlfriend, bpd wife, domestic violence, Dr Tara Palmatier, enablers, enabling abuse, intimate partner violence, Paul Elam, professional victim

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