u/Existing-Face-6322

I have a knee injury that obviously my weight didn't help. Now I am able to kneel and get on the floor where I could not before. Yesterday I climbed four flights of stairs without any sort of shortness of breath at all. I have lost 20 pounds in 5 weeks. I began at the beginning of April. This is absolutely unreal. I feel great, more confident in my mood too.

I am only a very new fan so I have to go back and figure out which one, but that's amazing!

Colour me surprised. Is this a "get back to American opera" campaign?

It's all awful no matter what age, don't get me wrong, but it's REALLY extra bad when they've gotten to their senior years and are still wreaking havoc and destroying people and plotting vindication, and they have zero insight into how awful they are even if they have been told. That behaviour is absolutely cemented into them, and the way they see the world is coloured only by their primitive emotions to attack others and cause distress. I think at least if they start to get some therapy in their younger years they have a scrap of awareness of what they are doing, even if I think DBT isn't any help, but they can get a bit of insight if nothing else. But when they've grown old this way, utterly convinced it's ok to behave like this and nobody can convince them to do anything else, well I think it's especially bad. Malignant really. My mom is in her eighties and remains the most dangerous person I know, and it seems to keep her from aging, if that makes any sense, the psychological poison that runs in her veins. She's still the devil, and sometimes I'm convinced she'll never die, and she's still pulling her shitty stunts and plotting and scheming to this day, and she understands absolutely nothing about how her behaviour is wrong. Romantic relationships are terrifying and hellish with someone with BPD, but seeing an elderly person still terrorizing everyone they perceive as a threat to them is monstrous. And nothing will ever make them see otherwise, and it's hell on earth, and I wish she'd just die and leave her victims to whatever peace they can attain.

(I am estranged but it's amazing how she can pierce my life even though she doesn't know anything about where I live or work or anything).