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Originally Posted by PinkFlamingo99
I'm sorry you're going to miss her so much!
I have had the BPD diagnosis too, mostly due to SI. I don't think I have a lot of it, but I agree with the fear of abandonment. I don't know, honestly I get paranoid every time I see a mental health person that they have BPD at the back of their minds as soon as they meet me and will use it against me. I think it comes from having it used against me young when I went inpatient or to the ER for stitches and stuff.
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I hate that it's so easily and often used as a label, then it follows you... and some people
do certainly use it against you, which sucks. I've been dismissed more than I care to count b/c of that one label. And most professionals don't see anything beyond it. It's really sad and pathetic on their end...
one of the biggest cop-outs I've heard from mental health professionals is the phrase "that's just your borderline speaking". BS. That phrase dismisses the validity and very real experience of the client and paints them into a box... it prevents both the clinician and the client from digging deeper to the root of whatever the client said or did that made the clinician say that. It writes off any hope in that area...
ugh. Ok. Sorry. Getting of my soap box now... lol.
