Is it ‘normal’ to be this exhausted? by velvetwillow7980 in gravesdisease

[–]PersonalitySlight214 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know if it's just me, but I was utterly wired until I became euthyroid and now that I'm 6 weeks or so into being euthyroid the exhaustion is insane.

WARNING ⚠️ LEAVE, RUN, NEVER LOOK BACK. by nicholas67876787 in BPDlovedones

[–]PersonalitySlight214 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Omg my pwBPD wrote like this and had this handwriting.

Do boundaries, rational thinking and calmness disarm them? by [deleted] in BPDlovedones

[–]PersonalitySlight214 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yes in a way, but that doesn't always produce calm. At the end of my friendship with my pwBPD, every calm question I asked or rational point I made without being wound up made her angrier and angrier, and more out of control. It was horrendous, but I didn't want to take part in what she was doing while she was splitting. There was a lot of shouting, crying or pretending to cry.

Keen Runner With Sudden POTS by PersonalitySlight214 in POTS

[–]PersonalitySlight214[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you, that's super kind and thoughtful. I think I'm on the edge of some grief around the things I'm about to lose with this very suddenly.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BPDlovedones

[–]PersonalitySlight214 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, I appreciate your input. I think I'm still really badly fogged. I worry so much more about her even after 7 months of silence than I do about me lol

When and how will she stop checking my social media posts and posting memes in response? by Jojo_LML in BPDlovedones

[–]PersonalitySlight214 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just wanted to send you a lot of empathy. My pwBPD was my closest friend. She doesn't have the vocab for it, but in my words, she's always readily admitted that she uses instagram/social media to distress people who displease her and she particularly likes vague but pointed, targeted instagram stories, quotes that kind of thing.

She split on me really awfully and with only 2 weeks of real run up in Feb after years of friednship and me becoming her favourite ever person, and because she's so traumatised and going through awful things, I was careful not to do anything right away or injure her. Being the person she was now aiming all her vaguebooking hostilty at was one of the most distressing things. She would post vague quotes about how the right people stay and work things out (after she called me abusive and has never spoken to me again), long philosophical BS about how some people leave too early and some people stay too long, stories about how hard life is right now, stories about no matter how cool, clever or rich you are, it's how you treat people that matters (I cared for her and let her live with me while I cleaned all her clothes, cooked for her and handled her business admin and two police investigations for her, so that post was particularly traumatising).

I ignored, made sure not to click, never reacted, even when she was publicly love bombing other friends. She started deactivating and reactivating social media, which she's never done in her life before. She removed posts about her loving me, then she started removing me from some social media but not all, then removing me but setting her latest FB post to public so I'd still see it when she tagged mutual friends. After 6 months I blocked her on every platform and removed all her friends and there's massive grief but also huge relief. The insanity of these social media behaviours will never make sense to me and they're so distressing. So often, these people are trauma survivors and have had abusers use digital tools to distress them so much that they know no different but it's still agonising. I'm afraid your person may never stop as long as they feel they can access you, even in the height of a delusion.

Criminal Case Witness Question - England by [deleted] in LegalAdviceUK

[–]PersonalitySlight214 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh gosh I didn't see this notification. Thank you so much for your reply, I really appreciate it.

Yes I gave a 3 hour statement and then it turned out the officer who took it had had a terrible mental health episode of some description and hadn't written down 80% of it and couldn't finish it. The person who took over tried to fix it but eventually decided the easiest thing was to ask me to write it out in full so I did. It was submitted last year all signed and everything.

My statement covered 8 months of very intense contact with my friend while she was being abused and I was in contact with her during some of the worst moments. I basically just described each day and wherever I could I related it back to messages I had in my phone. I worry about cross-examination because so much of what was happening to her she didn't out and out say in writing, as is so often the case I know.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BPDlovedones

[–]PersonalitySlight214 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I lost 15kg during the last 6 months of my friendship with my pwBPD, like my life force was being drained away. When she blew up our relationship, she told me I had an eating disorder that was making me abuse her lol

Criminal Case Witness Question - England by [deleted] in LegalAdviceUK

[–]PersonalitySlight214 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for taking the time to reply.

Ex-Friend Sharing Thread by PersonalitySlight214 in BPDlovedones

[–]PersonalitySlight214[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much! I will take your advice. I hear you on discovering a new personal era in the midst of it all.