Paranoia, Shame and Judgment Sensitivity

My wife has recently been really paranoid that the local moms don’t like her. She thinks that since they will sometimes not let their children come over to our house and play with my son that it means that they don’t trust her. OK, to be totally frank, my wife has been investigated by CPS twice. Once because of a DUI and once because she was over-medicated and went over to a judgmental woman’s house to pick up our children. The woman thought my wife was acting weird and reported her to CPS.

I think that many BP’s get paranoid about their self-image with other people. The combo of fear of judgment – which they perceive as judgment of their emotions and therefore judgment of their SELF mixes with the shame they feel about their self. Am I off-base here?

My wife has told me she has felt shameful about “the way she is” for years. Does that lead to personalization and thus to paranoia?

What do you think?

Related posts:

1. BPD and Lying
2. Blast from the Past – BPD, Shame and Self-Image
3. Fear and Shame
4. Why Shame is Corrosive in a BP/Non-BP relationship
5. Role of Shame in BPD
6. Rejection Sensitivity and BPD
7. Does it matter if it is really BPD? (or if it could be PTSD)
8. Versions of Shame
9. Runaway Shame?
10. Shame and BPD

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