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Aug 06, 2010, 08:08 PM
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Member Since: Apr 2010
Location: East Coast of Florida
Posts: 98
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Originally Posted by lou99pop
ECHOES, in conclusion that BPD is definitely not mental illness but a disorder, meaning we'll have to learn from it and to practise whatever it throws at us. Last question that bothers me much, do BPD people need a medication as part of the treatment or not? (Currently I'm taking meds and wondering if I'm not illness but still taking meds for disorder?)
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I think BPD is part disorder and part illness. Why? Because most BPDs get anti-psychotic medicine. When these meds are stopped the hallucinations, visions, commands and voices ofter reappear. Beeing brought back to reality lets the Pt. learn the differences between healthy (Wise Mind Thinking) vs. Emotional or all Logical Thinking. That is a very short class in DBT!! I do think it is also a behavior problem where we can't remember the correct behavior in similar situations. The worry I have in calling BPD a disorder and NOT an illness is that it feeds ignorant people like my M-I-L who actually said to me,"Why can't you just pull yourself up by the boot straps?" She and many others can understand it much better by seeing it as an illness although I doubt she does even now. Since most of the other MIs are chemical, I don't see why BPD should be left entirely out of the disease category. I have had BPD & BP for 30 long years!
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