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Originally Posted by Jaybird57
Or maybe you just need to settle down and investigate both disorders indepth. If you are Bipolar and taking your medication, you well see a change in your mood and behavior. If medication has little or no affect on your mood/behavior then you probably need to investigate another route or at least be willing to consider that you have a combination of both . .. although as a person in the mental health field, I think we are too willing to give people the "biological" diagnosis rather than the social/behavioral diagnosis. We don't want to make anyone RESPONSIBLE for their own behavior. And before you think I'm biased, know that I KNOW that I am BPD, learned and tutored at the feet of my abusers and family. I know that I am responsible for making changes. No medication is going to make a big difference for me 
Bipolar is a BIOLOGICAL DISORDER. Behavioral Personality Disorder (BPD) is a social/behavioral problem. It is something that we learned from our parents and/or significant others. There is some research that is linked to trauma and parental heriatity, but none of it is conclusive.
I sure hope you're able to find what you need. Go on a search. Read and learn. Ask questions. Don't have a closed mind. Don't put the blame on others. Seek out how you had a part in things . . . I'm not saying that any of us are the reason we are who we are . . . but if we continue to act or react in the same way, then we ARE responsible and can consider changes! |
Jay:
I believe that BPD is also, at least partially, biological,to use your word. I believe that BPD people have a brain disorder, possibly in the amygdala. (not sure if I spelled that right) Anyway, I think that some people with this type of brain are much more likely to have BPD. I do think that environmental factors can play a part in whether or not BPD actually develops in an individual with that type of brain malfunction. There are MRI studies that show differences in the "normal" brain and the brain of someone with BPD.
I think the reason that medications are not the whole answer for BPDers is that medicine has not yet found the right medication for our particular brain abnormality. The best we can hope for is to manage our disease, which is what DBT helps with. I do not think we ever get to a place where we do not have BPD. We may get so proficient at disease management that the BPD does not effect our lives regularly, but I do not think we change our brain disorder by therapy and skills training. We just retrain our brain to connect differently, IMO.