Posted by jazzdog on April 14, 2002, at 11:00:52
In reply to Re: Borderline?, posted by Cecilia on April 14, 2002, at 2:29:04
My mother had bpd - diagnosed long before it became fashionable - and believe me, you'd know. Extreme sensitivity to perceived rejection, outburts of rage and tearfulness, highly manipulative behaviour, self-destructive behaviour, addiction to crisis, frequent substance abuse, lack of insight into one's disorder, intolerance of being alone, tendency to paranoia. I agree that it's a fashionable dianosis these days, often for anxious depression. Some consider it a soft bipolar condition, though there was nothing 'soft' about my mother. And yes, it is highly corelated to childhood abuse, though apparently not to other trauma. PTSD tends to manifest in hypervigilance and emotional numbing, which I don't believe are borderline traits.
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