Posted by Zo on August 1, 2001, at 17:56:14
In reply to Re: BPD/antisocial/bipolar/Jamison/stimulants...., posted by margaretmarburg on July 28, 2001, at 5:10:08
BPD dx, in my understanding, requires a real "Splitting" be going on. The inability to hold the grey area, but to *truly* be capable of seeing things ONLY in black and white.
Borderline traits are pretty sexist-ly (?) (!) the way women get upset. Forget all that horses**t. Borderlines suffer in their Object Relations, they do not have Object Constancy, and that's a real early developmental stage. . .one which, whether through trauma or chemistry, didn't take place. So that growing up never really happens. They're stuck there.
That means, as is true in all Personality Disorders, the person is wired up wrong, hard wired, and that's very difficult to change.
Zo
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