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Old Mar 28, 2004, 12:17 AM
Zenobia Zenobia is offline
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Welcome to the forum Cleomaru. It was my understanding too that there was no meds for borderline as a disorder but meds could be used to help with the symptoms that surround the illness. There have been findings however that borderline is in part a physiological illness. Brain scans have shown that there are in many borderline patients two areas of the brain that are up to 15 percent smaller then non-borderline patients. Those areas of the brain deal with memory and with emotions. The pathways between these two parts also tend to be incomplete or misdirected. When you consider the problems with emotional control and object constanance it makes perfect sense. On the bright side, the brain is always growing and restructuring so these things can be over come with, as you say, therapy and for the lucky, support.
Carrie

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