As some of you know, I was crazy enough to sign up for two concurrent NAMI Family to Family 12-week courses. The class I went to today was borderline specific. There were 29 people signed up for our course and the leader said she had 25 more on the waiting list. Nationally, there were 1500 signed up waiting for a course. She said that they just didn't have enough leaders to offer more courses.
It was amazing as we went around the room sharing our stories. They were so much alike . . . much more so than the more general Family to Family NAMI course we go to on Sundays. At least five families had loved ones in residential treatment centers. I (husband didn't go this morning since he had something to do at school) was the only one with the family member in an out of state facility. All of the others were at the same place here in Atlanta.
One interesting thing the leader said was that there was a disproportionate number of borderlines that had been adopted or refugees. I think we all knew that from belonging to this board.
One thing I liked hearing was the myth of bad parenting or "non-validating" parents being the cause of Borderline (BPD) put to rest. One of the leaders pointed out that a nationally known psychiatrist who designed the Family to Family course said that the very fact that these courses were filled to the brim with parents desperate to help their children would not likely be filled with abusive, non-caring people.
I'm looking forward to the next class.
~Kathy
It was amazing as we went around the room sharing our stories. They were so much alike . . . much more so than the more general Family to Family NAMI course we go to on Sundays. At least five families had loved ones in residential treatment centers. I (husband didn't go this morning since he had something to do at school) was the only one with the family member in an out of state facility. All of the others were at the same place here in Atlanta.
One interesting thing the leader said was that there was a disproportionate number of borderlines that had been adopted or refugees. I think we all knew that from belonging to this board.
One thing I liked hearing was the myth of bad parenting or "non-validating" parents being the cause of Borderline (BPD) put to rest. One of the leaders pointed out that a nationally known psychiatrist who designed the Family to Family course said that the very fact that these courses were filled to the brim with parents desperate to help their children would not likely be filled with abusive, non-caring people.
I'm looking forward to the next class.
~Kathy