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Old Apr 21, 2015, 12:37 AM
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Originally Posted by ScarletPimpernel View Post
No offense, I feel irritated when people w/o BPD minimize BPD. It's like telling some with depression they're not suffering from depression. Or someone with PTSD that they have symptoms that all people who have suffered aome sort of trauma have.

I admit there's a lot of stigmatism, misunderstanding, and misdiagnosing of BPD. But even comments here are stigmatizing BPD.

BPD is caused by genetics and environment. One is born with an emotional sensitivity. That coupled with childhood trauma causes one to be emotionally delayed. That's the basics of BPD. The symptoms overlap with other disorders, and often mimic teenage behavior. It does improve by simply living your life. Managing co-disorders with medication and seeking therapy only aids in emotional development.

So when someone has borderline "traits", it means you're growing emotionally out of some of the traits. Almost all people with BPD graduate to traits.

Just please take into consideration that when you minimize the diagnosis of BPD, you're also minimizing people who suffer from it.
I want to be clear that I did not mean to minimize the illness, whatever it will be called someday.

My only point is that it is believed to be caused by both genetics and environment. Nothing has been proven. Even treatment is throwing darts by flashlight.

In my earlier years I was diagnosed as BPD and it is horribly horribly painful and I don't wish it on anyone.
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