Posted by Dinah on November 2, 2010, at 0:43:49
In reply to Re: Deneb, how is today going?, posted by morgan miller on November 2, 2010, at 0:06:18
If it were a more well defined disorder, I might feel differently.
BPD has always been ruled out for me. But I definitely identify with many aspects of it, and my therapist will agree I have some traits.
I wasn't abused as a child either. It may have been what Linehan would call an invalidating environment. Deneb's may have been too, even in the absence of abuse. But without the underlying reactivity and slow return to baseline, the childhood environment alone wouldn't have caused harm.
When the literature starts recognizing the underlying physiology of many, if not all, "borderline personality disorder", I would be more inclined to worry about the diagnosis.
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