Posted by AMenz on June 22, 2001, at 17:09:14
In reply to Re: To Sar - re: Borderline Personality, posted by sar on June 21, 2001, at 20:40:45
I am firmly convinced that something that gives you symptoms so serious the average human being doesn't experience anything like it, means what you have is biochemical.
I have seen people go through, Auchwitz, 15 years imprisonment as political prisoners etc and come back fine. I think without an underlying biochemical problem, no amount of "environmental insult" is going to give you PTSD, of BPD. IMHO, since they haven't awarded me the Nobel prize in psychiatry just yet.
> Well hey, woman!
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> Thanks for the link. I'm glad I checked in--have been too tired & busy lately to read/post very much.
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> Dr. Heller's theory that BPD is mostly biological is radical! Most of what I've read (not a lot...one book and some internet articles) aligns BPD with PTSD or suggests that it's rooted in abuse (physical, emotional, sexual, or all three), though it often "runs in the family." (Which again begs the nature or nurture question.) I've been thinking of my mother lately--for years a demure elementary school teacher by day, she'd fly into a blind rage once she got home, violent hysterics over "your shoes being left out" or "the chair not being pushed in." I don't fly off the handle like her, my main problem is that I absolutely remain unconvinced that I *exist*! When I smoke pot that thought makes me laugh.
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> Can you tell me some about yourself, Kingfish?
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> irie!
> sar
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