Posted by Amanda29 on August 3, 2008, at 13:46:31
In reply to Re: Borderline Personality Disorder.. » Amanda29, posted by raisinb on August 3, 2008, at 13:39:27
My therapist doesnt believe in labels...he diagnoses his patients with labels but once he starts seeing them as patients, he only focuses on the symptoms of the label...he doesnt say.."oh well, here is Amanda who is BPD, bipolar,OCD Depressed, anxious..etc etc...he sees my symptoms...whereas I see myself as my labels. My labels define who I am as a person. And they shouldnt. This is where my therapist and I differ...he doesnt believe that it defines me, but being borderline is all I know...I DONT KNOW how to live NOT BEING BORDERLINE. And, if I want to get better, I have to work on the symptoms that make me Borderline. Which by the way, I am prety upset because I just realized that bpd is a learned disorder...that my parents are the ones that gave me the disorder..baised on how they raised me..and that I can fix it if I change my behavior! I didnt realize this and now I feel as if I have wasted the past 3 years of therapy for my therapist. I feel horrible.
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