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Old Sep 19, 2011, 12:59 PM
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Originally Posted by ECHOES View Post
I don't consider BPD an illness.
I think there's a risk in seeing any problem behavior as an illness, namely, that overly controlling MH professionals will use the illness model to explain almost any actions you take, even positive ones, as an expression of that illness. When I finally broke free of one such therapist who treated me as someone who couldn't be trusted with even the smallest responsibility, I felt as if she were going to hunt me down and throw me in solitary.
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Thanks for this!
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