Personality Disorders from a Childhood Wounds Perspective

- A wounded child is going to have a difficult time developing an individuated sense of self. - An injury to the core self forces the child to develop a maladaptive personality as a way of protecting from further injury and to protect from total annihilation of the self. - Personality disorders in adulthood started in childhood and are a mansifestion of the injured self - Over the years the coping mechanisms to survive become habitual and form the way the child and now adult sees themelwvs, the world and how they interact with it. - They personality is largely built to protect wound and is not aligned with authentic self. - Borderline personality disorder for example is built around the advancement wound and protecting from getting abandoned. NPD is built around feeing shamed and humiliated to protect from further shame. - Personality should be an expression of self and the mechanism used to communicate with outside world. If not built on truth and health it will lead to breakdowns and inability to communicate love or even get needs met. Leads to extreme frustration, shame, rage, humiliation and feeling like others are evil or everyone is out to get them (paranoia).