re: 12 Year Old Girl with BPD

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wheelz007

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You just described my little brother. To a tee. I believe in prayer and I've told him that's the extent of my reaching out to him from now on.


We are adults, so it's different. I cannot imagine what the OP is going through with it being a 12 year old child.


I'll say this on my brother, my last 1/3 of life - I plan - will be completely about helping other people, but my own brother is not on that list anymore. The prayer of a righteous man availeth much, and hopefully I gain that status on my prayers, and my brother gets the help from God he needs, as I continue to pray for him.

He was this way his whole life, and then he had a stroke 5 years ago, and now pretends he's this way because of the stroke. Liar. Manipulative liar. I could write a book, but here's the straw that broke the camel's back: I called him about a tornado warning. He yelled at me for calling instead of texting, because blah blah blah, HE was somehow inconvenienced because I called. So I told him that was it. Praying for you. Bye.

Didn't effect him at all. I get the silent treatment again. Same as you said with your ex wife.

I appreciated your post.


As a Christian, (ETA, I'm a sorry excuse for a Christian, I easily admit it) I do have some non mainstream thoughts on salvation that I think are relevant here. If someone doesn't like that being entered into the conversation, then stop reading right now.

I'm not very educated on how/who interpreted the Bible. I should be, but I'm not. Being a preacher's kid, I'm more skeptical, not less. Were mistakes made? I'm not going to sit here and say no to that.

So I believe there are certainly categories where salvation will happen for people with mental illnesses, Downs Syndrome, or simply just not having any normal level of intelligence at all. Theological arguments can get pretty intense and in-depth. Sorry, Forrest Gump is not going to hell for not being smart enough to choose Protestant conservative or liberal, Catholic, Buddhist, etc. Neither are the Special Olympics kids

To a lesser extent, neither are people who are mentally ill. I believe it's incumbent on them to chose Christianity, but with the mental illness they deal with, will God hold them accountable for misinterpretation of scripture? Sane people can't agree on scripture. How are insane people supposed to do it?

My brother was not abused or abandoned. Instead he was born with a torturous skin ailment and breathing problems from allergies that has made his life a living hell. Anger from it. Sort of normal life, he still played high school football and ran track, etc., late late late college graduate, but the ball and chain of his health issues has been with him since the cradle.

Does that make my brother less hateful? No