Episode 118: Parenting with Borderline Personality Disorder
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2018
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Hello, all! This is another mini-episode with just one question, but boy is it a good one. If you didn't catch the last episode, I am doing a series of short episodes while I crank out the finishing touches on my online course, Kick Anxiety's Ass.
In this episode, I take a question about parenting with borderline personality disorder. Full show notes can be found at http://duffthepsych.com/episode118
If you want to send me a question for a future episode, please send it to duffthepsych@gmail.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, before we start the show, I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:04.0 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general, |
| 0:08.2 | and some of those could be sensitive for you. |
| 0:10.4 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, but also respect and recognize your limitations. |
| 0:17.0 | So please use your best judgment. I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely but feel free to feel it out |
| 0:24.5 | check out the episode and just see what happens if you need to skip that's okay |
| 0:27.6 | but you know feel free to give it a shot first I also need to say that while I am a |
| 0:32.0 | psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. |
| 0:35.0 | This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. |
| 0:40.0 | So with those said let's go ahead and get into the show. Hello friends of all varieties this is the Hardcore Self Help |
| 1:03.4 | podcast episode 118 I'm your host Dr Robert Duff a psychologist from |
| 1:07.6 | Southern California the author of the Hardcore Self Help book series and today is |
| 1:12.4 | another shorter episode we're just doing one |
| 1:14.6 | question today while I continue to wrap up my online course so I'm not going to |
| 1:20.0 | give too much preamble let's just go ahead and get into the question. |
| 1:24.3 | All right let's get into the question here it reads hi dr deaf I recently found your |
| 1:28.2 | podcast and I'm so grateful for the work that you do thank you for my background I'm in my mid-40s and a mom to two small children, five and two. Oh man, that's crazy. I have a two-year-old and a five-month-old and that's crazy. Almost a year ago I was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder |
| 1:45.0 | after I was hospitalized for trying to commit suicide. At that time I've been working |
| 1:49.3 | with a psychiatrist for my |
| 1:55.0 | depression and anxiety. |
| 1:58.0 | I also have dermatylomania and will tear my skin off when I feel anxious or upset. For the listeners, dermatillomania is similar to trichotillomania. Trichotillomania would be pulling out hair. |
| 2:05.0 | Dermotillomania typically is like picking at your skin, pulling off small pieces of skin when you're nervous or anxious. |
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