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<blockquote data-quote="Waitingforamiracle" data-source="post: 760098" data-attributes="member: 25449"><p><em>"I feel like when you're trying to tell the person you need to have space from to take care of yourself, (i.e., my son) they look at you like you're crazy not thinking that their horrible situation should take precedence over any other factor in your life.</em></p><p><em>Then I start to think, I'm I wrong? It's a struggle."</em></p><p>I have recommended this book before, "Stop Caretaking the Borderline or Narcissist" by </p><p>Margalis Fjelstad - it was recommended to me by my counselor. It describes how to get out of this way of thinking, it helped me a lot! It talks about how borderlines (which seems to describe nearly all d.c's) will always follow the Drama Triangle - either you (or they) are a victim, a rescuer, or a persecutor. These 3 roles are interchangeable all the time, but you have to break out of the triangle to escape the situation. Lots of other useful stuff in there!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Waitingforamiracle, post: 760098, member: 25449"] [I]"I feel like when you're trying to tell the person you need to have space from to take care of yourself, (i.e., my son) they look at you like you're crazy not thinking that their horrible situation should take precedence over any other factor in your life. Then I start to think, I'm I wrong? It's a struggle."[/I] I have recommended this book before, "Stop Caretaking the Borderline or Narcissist" by Margalis Fjelstad - it was recommended to me by my counselor. It describes how to get out of this way of thinking, it helped me a lot! It talks about how borderlines (which seems to describe nearly all d.c's) will always follow the Drama Triangle - either you (or they) are a victim, a rescuer, or a persecutor. These 3 roles are interchangeable all the time, but you have to break out of the triangle to escape the situation. Lots of other useful stuff in there! [/QUOTE]
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