Parenting Skills for Mothers with Borderline Personality Disorder
The challenging and difficult task to help individuals with BPD to cope with their crises keep therapists busy - so that the issue of the children’s well-being is often secondary.
For several reasons, mothers with BPD themselves do not speak much about their children with their therapists, neither. First, they typically focus on their most urgent issues: their suffering and crisis with conflicts in interpersonal relationships or at work. Problems in the interaction with the child might not appear to be urgent enough. Secondly, shame and fear play an important role when considering speaking openly about the neglect or abuse of their children. The fear of being stigmatized and of losing child custody often leads to a cautious and non-help-seeking behavior.
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