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Re:Borderline Personality Disorder: Treatment Resistance Rec... by kbenson on Saturday December 02, 2017 @03:40PM (#15833941)
> I am still contemplating whether I should mention it to my spouse. She knows about my diagnosis in college but not these intrusive thoughts.

That's a tough one. I'm going to step inand give my two cents, even though I'm not trained in this and don't have a huge amount of experience.

Don't share it unless you have a specific setting that allows it to be digested by her slowly, and with professional help to put it into context, and even then have a good reason for doing so. Sharing this with her puts her in the situation of needing to balance her understanding and love of her husband with her love and protectiveness of her children. It's her job to worry about the kids, so even if she's 99% sure there's absolutely no danger, that 1% is hard to accept as a parent. As long as you're sure the situation is safe, saving her from having to obsess over the possibility of those scenarios is doing you both a favor.

This of course presupposes that you aren't really a danger, as you've noted. So as long as you're sure of that, I keeping it to yourself is better for your both. I'm of course an untrained outsider looking in though, so take this for whatever it's worth.

Re:Borderline Personality Disorder: Treatment Resistance Rec... by Fnoord on Sunday December 03, 2017 @06:25AM (#15837122)
Perhaps this type of information can be shared in a setting with the two subjects plus a professional such as their psychiatrist. I mean, isn't this what e.g. psychologists, psychiatrists, and mediators are for?
Re:Borderline Personality Disorder: Treatment Resistance Rec... by kbenson on Sunday December 03, 2017 @02:56PM (#15839192)
That is what I was getting at with "unless you have a specific setting that allows it to be digested by her slowly, and with professional help to put it into context".