I honestly think the "borderline personality disorder" diagnosis needs to be eradicated. This iffy diagnosis is mostly applied to women. When I read the theory that "borderline personality disorder" is actually a form of complex PTSD, it hit home with me. "Borderline Personality Disorder" is the latter twentieth-century hysteria. I wrote a piece about a traumatic incident that happened to me when I was fifteen and realized that a lot of the acting out I did in my teens could be traced to this incident. However, a lot of it could also be traced to the bullying I endured through my entire fucking childhood and teen years.
I also propose that the word "bullying" be stricken from the lexicon and replaced with a more accurate term:
Abuse.
I was inspired to write this after reading a post on The Mighty regarding borderline personality disorder.
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I just read a list of the symptoms and that it is diagnosed based only on those symptoms. Sounds like behavior someone exhibits after abuse and a catchall sort of diagnosis.
ReplyDeleteExactly. I think it falls into the same basket of Freudian fuckery as penis envy and his idea that everyone wants to have sex with their parents. The guy was a coke-head. The more I read about him, the more awful I find him. Apparently the apple didn't fall far from the tree with his daughter.
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