Posted by Cecilia on October 23, 2001, at 2:32:29
In reply to Re: Borderline Personality Disorder Meds » Elizabeth, posted by sar on October 22, 2001, at 17:18:52
> > > Well, that's what my psychoanayst said a few months ago. She hesitated to dx me "borderline" because that label is often reserved for patients that the docs just can't get along with or understand.
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> > She's right, it is.
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> i discovered my borderline tendencies through my own research and i was actually the first one to call myself "borderline"...the books helped, and now that i'm in the process of mending my ways (who says borderlines are difficult to treat?!) i no longer consider myself such.
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> > > Oh, i think he just went to school there. Robert Jimenez is his name.
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> > Are you in the Boston area?
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> no, southwest texas...
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> > I think that diagnoses are just labels, and it sounds like your pdoc knows this. So you don't need to take a psychiatric diagnosis too seriously (and doing so might really be harmful to your self-esteem, so I'd advise against it!).
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> the borderline label hurt, the histrionic one made me laugh, and the BP II--well i now i have firstahnd knowledge that it's the meds, not the dx. which i had read many times before but could not fully understand.
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> having read up on all of my diagnoses has helped change my behavior, though.Re: Borderline Personality Disorder- I read somewhere that the way a lot of doctors and therapists make this diagnosis is basically: Why isn`t Ms. X getting better? Because she`s a borderline. How do you know she`s a borderline? Because she isn`t getting better.
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