There really isn't a starting point in which I can begin to explain my situation, so I apologize in advance if this post seems out of order and is hard to follow.
To begin, I am a sixteen year-old male with a mother, according to the extensive reading and therapy sessions I have done, that I believe to have Borderline Personality Disorder.
My problem is as follows: Recently (August 2006) I have moved out of my mother's house and into my father's house (they divorced around 2000/2001) because of the increasing stress and tension between my mother. It got to a point where I was failing most of my classes in school and my social life was very off. After examining all of my problems around me, I narrowed down a central source of all my stress - my relationship with my mother. She was always so unpredictable; I never knew how she would react to something. There were times when the smallest things would send her into a horrible rage and other times when much larger things happened that she would be calm about and didn't seem to give a damn.
Right now my sister, age 11, is still living with my mother, and I am extremely scared for her because I know it is a crucial time, developmentally, for her. This mixed in with my mother's unpredictability and need to be loved/fear of being abandoned is, as I'm fearing, a lethal combination for my sister. My mother is mentally unstable, and my sister is the one holding her up.
This is my main concern...any advice (within reason) would be much appreciated. Also, feel free to ask questions - I'm not very good at explaining things without having questions to guide me.
Thank you.
To begin, I am a sixteen year-old male with a mother, according to the extensive reading and therapy sessions I have done, that I believe to have Borderline Personality Disorder.
My problem is as follows: Recently (August 2006) I have moved out of my mother's house and into my father's house (they divorced around 2000/2001) because of the increasing stress and tension between my mother. It got to a point where I was failing most of my classes in school and my social life was very off. After examining all of my problems around me, I narrowed down a central source of all my stress - my relationship with my mother. She was always so unpredictable; I never knew how she would react to something. There were times when the smallest things would send her into a horrible rage and other times when much larger things happened that she would be calm about and didn't seem to give a damn.
Right now my sister, age 11, is still living with my mother, and I am extremely scared for her because I know it is a crucial time, developmentally, for her. This mixed in with my mother's unpredictability and need to be loved/fear of being abandoned is, as I'm fearing, a lethal combination for my sister. My mother is mentally unstable, and my sister is the one holding her up.
This is my main concern...any advice (within reason) would be much appreciated. Also, feel free to ask questions - I'm not very good at explaining things without having questions to guide me.
Thank you.