Posted by floatingbridge on June 7, 2011, at 22:55:14
In reply to Re: Management Of Borderline Personality, posted by Phillipa on June 7, 2011, at 20:14:32
Well I arrived in the psychiatric world dx'd as cyclothymic. I've read books about BPD and fit the bill except for the self-injurious part and suicide attempts, gestures, whatever. I won't debate the real suffering of people with this dx and agree that something is going on. The idea of a personality disorder seems so wrong because it hinders any biological research and invites moral judgement. Borderline people are not across the board nasty. No. Nasty people come in all stripes and some of them are doctors. For some reason some nasty people get to be in charge of entire nations or
someone's psychiatric treatment. They had the wiring to get through the rigors of med school or politicial *ss kissing.Borderlines who seek treatment are very smart enough to
know that what the majority of people take for granted
waking up each day, a stable sense of self, remains elusive at
best.Blessed are the folks who do not have to understand or endure this. May everyone learn to stop pointing fingers at others.
Do I sound angry? I guess I'm sensitized to this issue. I certainly don't mean people onboard here are pointing fingers. I mean, who will stick up for the psychiatric scapegoat? (Of course people with Borderline dx's accomplish great things, too. Med school included.)
A decent book is 'Through the Mirror' (I think that's it) if anyone needs to place a face and heart and mind to BPD.I had a grandmother who I suspect fit the dx down to 'staged' suicidal 'gestures'. She frickin ruined my mother's life. I was too young to ever talk to her; I didn't even know about her life until she died. About how HER mother reminded her regularly that she wished she had fled Eastern Europe with her brother (to young to take the journey) and died in a bomb raid.
So where does it come from? Biogenic? Familial pathology? Both?
Whew.
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* and whoever gazes at the stars will never again be quite alone...
c-ptsd & attendant health concerns
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