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Feb 22, 2014, 03:10 PM
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Grand Poohbah
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Member Since: Jan 2011
Location: Surrey, SE London, UK
Posts: 1,628
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    . Umm, very interesting debate going on. I've read and re-read what everybody's said and STILL can't make up my mind. I agree there's a kind of picture that the word 'disease' brings forth, and another picture of what 'disorder' brings. I have BPD and every nasty little 'spin off' that comes with that (and that's a LOT). Apparently I was born with it and I'll die with it, according to three shrinks. However, what I am supposed to do, by way of CBT/DBT or S.T.E.P.P.S. is learn to live WITH it in a 'modified' fashion. If I should happen to learn to live with it, then at best I shouldn't die OF IT, but I will still die WITH IT! I'm informed that the only way I'll die OF IT is if I'm amongst the 10 to 15% who successfully commit suicide. Sorry, I know all this sounds complicated but that's how it's been explained to me by so called reliable sources, experts who one is supposed to trust to know what they are about. So personally, I call BPD a disorder, because it's my thinking that's severely disorded and not diseased. I don't believe there is a ''cure'' yet - far from it. I feel a disease can be cured, while with a disorder it takes a lot of on-going work to contain it in it's manageable form. I think that's about it, thanks for reading. HUGZZ. x 
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