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Originally Posted by Maranara
Yea, you've got 'em.
....and BPD IS part of the real you. BPD does have a few advantages that should not be overlooked. BPD makes us sensitive to other people's issues, it makes us more caring and empathetic, and the vast majority of us are more academic and/or creative due to the BPD. We don't want to get rid of it. We just want to be able to control it instead of it controlling us.
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I believe to a point that BPD is part of a person but it is not who they are. I don't think that because of BPD I'm as artistic as I am. I think that bpd describes the unwanted traits. I don't know. I consider this all the time and still do not accept that BPD is what makes me what I am. I've been an artist since childhood but I believe that BPD sometimes is caused by trauma and extreme abuse or other life changing things. I think that I would still be as emotional as I am today without bpd but because of the horrible upbringing it caused this emotional anomaly that is part of me, become bpd.
As with the academics, I think that it's more of the same, people who tend to be smarter and more analytical live life closer to the edge of genius/insanity and coupled with emotional sensitivity, they are very prone to become bpd. I think the intelligence and emotional people are more prone to BPD if not taken care of in early life but I believe those things exist not because of the BPD. Again I think those things are part of you but BPD stems from those, not the other way around.