Don't get me wrong - I think my parents did the best they could. One parent was an alcoholic, the other parent did their best as the enabling/non drinking parent. Mostly, things are healed... except, of course, I developed coping mechanisms that I have carried into adulthood.

29/F - iI move every few months, I constantly think of self-injury when I'm not actively doing it, I live with an eating disorder, I have never had a long term relationship of more than a few months in which I have lived in the same city as someone else, I feel like I cannot relate to people very well, like I need to be alone but I crave human connection; I constantly feel like an alien within my own culture.

Some of these are just me, and who I am. I am a free-spirited person. But some behaviours, I began to question. It was suggested to me earlier in the summer that I may have a mild form of BPD, by several medical professionals and therapists. 

I don't have an official diagnosis, and I am not seeking one on here. I am, however, seeking anyone who has had an experience similar to mine? Anyone on here the child of an adult who had an addiction problem? I know BPD can relate to trauma, and a lot of the behaviours of ACOAs I relate to. But not all. Same with BPD. i.e. I read the BPD symptoms and go, ''am I really manipulative? are all BPD sufferers manipulative??''

Just trying to figure out where my behaviours fit in, I guess, and see what support there is out there. Thanks. &lt;3