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Happy Thursday!!
I hope you've had a good week. I'm going to try to get to Stinson Beach this weekend assuming the weather holds!
FREE Q AND A
Monday, June 13th at 11:30am Pacific
Listening method: Phone or Web
Ask me anything you like related to estrangement but please keep all questions between 2-3 sentences.
Questions answered on first-come, first-served basis so enter your question now to make sure.
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Does my Child or Their Spouse Have Borderline Personality Disorder?
Mental illness in our children or their partners is a common cause of estrangement. Perhaps nowhere is this more true than when one of them has Borderline Personality Disorder. Here are some of the common symptoms
* Extreme reactions-including panic, depression, rage, or frantic
actions to abandonment or disappointment, whether real or
perceived
* A pattern of intense and stormy relationships with family, friends, and
loved ones, often veering from extreme closeness and love (idealization) to extreme dislike or anger (devaluation). Black and white thinking is very common.
* Distorted and unstable self-image or sense of self, which can result in sudden changes in feelings, opinions, values, or plans and goals for the future (such as school or career choices)
* Impulsive and often dangerous behaviors, such as spending sprees, unsafe sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, and binge eating
* Recurring suicidal behaviors or threats or self-harming behavior, such as cutting
* Intense and highly changeable moods, with each episode lasting from a few hours to a few days
* Chronic feelings of emptiness and/or boredom
* Inappropriate, intense anger or problems controlling anger
* Stress-related paranoia or severe dissociative symptoms, such as
feeling cut off from oneself, observing oneself from outside the body, or losing touch with reality.
Those with borderline personality disorder may feel angry and distressed over minor separations-such as vacations, business trips, or sudden changes of plans-from people to whom they feel close. Studies show that people with this disorder may see anger in an emotionally neutral face and have a stronger reaction to words with negative meanings than people who do not have the disorder.
If you need more help understanding and working with your child's mental illness or that of their spouse's join us this Tuesday:
June 14
530 PM Pacific, 630 PM Mountain,
7
30 PM Central, 830 PM Eastern
DOES MY CHILD HAVE A PERSONALITY DISORDER OR OTHER MENTAL ILLNESS?
Understanding Its Role in Estrangement
NEXT WEEK!
Tuesday, June 21
530 PM Pacific, 630 PM Mountain,
730 PM Central, 830 PM Eastern
MY ESTRANGED CHILD IS BACK: NOW WHAT?
Learning How to Navigate Early
Reconciliation
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- Free study guide
- Link to the live webinar to listen to over the phone or computer
- Q and A during live webinar
- Complete transcript of lecture after it airs
- Link to the webinar recording after it airs
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About Dr. Coleman
Dr. Coleman is a psychologist in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area and a Senior Fellow with the Council on Contemporary Families, a non-partisan organization of leading sociologists, historians, psychologists and demographers dedicated to providing the press and public with the latest research and best-practice findings about American families. He has lectured at Harvard University, The University of California at Berkeley, The University of London, Cornell Weill Medical School, and blogs on parent-adult child relationships for the U.C. Berkeley publication, Greater Good Magazine.
Dr. Coleman is frequently contacted by the media for opinions and commentary about changes in the American family. He has been a frequent guest on the Today Show, NPR, and The BBC, and has also been featured on Sesame Street, 20/20, Good Morning America, America Online Coaches, PBS, and numerous news programs for FOX, ABC, CNN, and NBC television. His advice has appeared in The New York Times, The Times of London, The Shriver Report, Fortune, Newsweek, The Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, Psychology Today, U.S. World and News Report, Parenting Magazine, The Baltimore Sun and many others.
He is the author of numerous articles and chapters and has written four books: The Marriage Makeover: Finding Happiness in Imperfect Harmony (St. Martin's Press); The Lazy Husband: How to Get Men to Do More Parenting and Housework (St. Martin's Press); When Parents Hurt: Compassionate Strategies When You and Your Grown Child Don't Get Along (HarperCollins); and Married with Twins: Life, Love and the Pursuit of Marital Harmony. His books have been translated into Chinese, Croatian, and Korean, and are also available in the U.K., Canada, and Australia.
He is the co-editor, along with historian Stephanie Coontz of seven online volumes of Unconventional Wisdom: News You Can Use, a compendium of noteworthy research on the contemporary family, gender, sexuality, poverty, and work-family issues.
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