Personality disorders are caused by child abuse. If your kid develops BPD “out of nowhere”, it’s your own fault for not loving them enough as a kid.
Addiction is forgivable if caused by poverty, but not if caused by the parents. Healthy people are a lot more resistant to addiction. Children use drugs to escape when you’ve made their lives miserable.
Some personality disorders are caused by trauma and abuse.
Some trauma and abuse are caused by parents.
The world is big and you are being a narrow-minded asshole with this kind of comment that confidently places blame on people you don’t know for things you don’t know about.
I said parents owe their kids undying love, and kids don’t have to love their parents.
You said “Nuh uh, I don’t have to love my kids if they get a mental illness”
Or maybe you didn’t. Maybe you actually meant “Nuh uh, my kids owe me love if they get a mental illness”
Either way, you decided to follow this behaviour up by trying to take the moral high ground. For some arcane reason.
Now listen, I know an adult with a PD, just one, who says his parents never abused him. And he loves them. And I know two dozen who were abused, and loathe their parents. Let’s try and spot the correlation, shall we?
I’m sorry if that’s your experience, but it’s definitely not universally true. We are doing everything we can for our 14 year old, with some success thanks to modern medicine, but she is diagnosed with BPD.
My 12 year old probably has more trauma and gets less attention because of how much time and effort my 14 year old takes, and she is very well-balanced.
Yeah, I was the well adjusted kid in a family just like yours. The self-sufficient one, who was well behaved, never did drugs, never broke the law. I had the BPD sibling who caused our parents no end of grief. Threatened me with a knife several times too. You know what I realised around the time I turned 18? I didn’t love my parents. I was just going through the motions. I never knew love until I was an adult.
We all thought my sibling was just being difficult. We all thought that my parents were doing everything they could. Nah, I know better now. I got a personality disorder too after I turned 20. Mine was just dormant for longer. Fuck my parents.
There’s not much more I can do. I spend as much time with them as they will let me. My 12 year old is super independent, but we do have some great conversations later after everyone else is in bed. She and I built a table from scratch together - to the extent she would let me help. I actually love spending time with her when she’ll tolerate me. If things go badly for her, it will not be due to abuse or lack of love.
I don’t have that same relationship with my 14 year old because I can’t, but I sure would if I could.
I’m not trying to absolve your parents for what you went through. I’m genuinely sorry for how things went for you. I can see with my own eyes how hard it is to be that kid and I feel terrible that you had to go through it. All I can say is people have other experiences.
There can be organic sources. Yes my parents were shit to me when I was a kid but that didn’t give me IED, I had IED and autism WHILE they were being abusive and that gave me ptsd and depression.
Personality disorders are caused by child abuse. If your kid develops BPD “out of nowhere”, it’s your own fault for not loving them enough as a kid.
Addiction is forgivable if caused by poverty, but not if caused by the parents. Healthy people are a lot more resistant to addiction. Children use drugs to escape when you’ve made their lives miserable.
Some personality disorders are caused by trauma and abuse.
Some trauma and abuse are caused by parents.
The world is big and you are being a narrow-minded asshole with this kind of comment that confidently places blame on people you don’t know for things you don’t know about.
Okay, let me explain what just happened to you:
I said parents owe their kids undying love, and kids don’t have to love their parents.
You said “Nuh uh, I don’t have to love my kids if they get a mental illness”
Or maybe you didn’t. Maybe you actually meant “Nuh uh, my kids owe me love if they get a mental illness”
Either way, you decided to follow this behaviour up by trying to take the moral high ground. For some arcane reason.
Now listen, I know an adult with a PD, just one, who says his parents never abused him. And he loves them. And I know two dozen who were abused, and loathe their parents. Let’s try and spot the correlation, shall we?
No, it went like this:
You said, “all child personality problems are caused by parents”
and I said “no they are not, and further, you are an asshole for claiming that”
You’re mixing up the order of events.
I only responded to your one comment. Not a lot of events to mix up the order of.
Perhaps I responded to your narrowminded and accusatory comment before you sent it?
I’m sorry if that’s your experience, but it’s definitely not universally true. We are doing everything we can for our 14 year old, with some success thanks to modern medicine, but she is diagnosed with BPD.
My 12 year old probably has more trauma and gets less attention because of how much time and effort my 14 year old takes, and she is very well-balanced.
It’s not as simple as you’re trying to make it.
Yeah, I was the well adjusted kid in a family just like yours. The self-sufficient one, who was well behaved, never did drugs, never broke the law. I had the BPD sibling who caused our parents no end of grief. Threatened me with a knife several times too. You know what I realised around the time I turned 18? I didn’t love my parents. I was just going through the motions. I never knew love until I was an adult.
We all thought my sibling was just being difficult. We all thought that my parents were doing everything they could. Nah, I know better now. I got a personality disorder too after I turned 20. Mine was just dormant for longer. Fuck my parents.
Family just like yours.
There’s not much more I can do. I spend as much time with them as they will let me. My 12 year old is super independent, but we do have some great conversations later after everyone else is in bed. She and I built a table from scratch together - to the extent she would let me help. I actually love spending time with her when she’ll tolerate me. If things go badly for her, it will not be due to abuse or lack of love.
I don’t have that same relationship with my 14 year old because I can’t, but I sure would if I could.
I’m not trying to absolve your parents for what you went through. I’m genuinely sorry for how things went for you. I can see with my own eyes how hard it is to be that kid and I feel terrible that you had to go through it. All I can say is people have other experiences.
There can be organic sources. Yes my parents were shit to me when I was a kid but that didn’t give me IED, I had IED and autism WHILE they were being abusive and that gave me ptsd and depression.
So not all kids problems are parent caused.