Hey. Yeah, I don't deal with stress terribly well either. I don't think that many people tend to... But I guess it affects me more than most.

Did you read 'Madness Explained' by Bentall? I like a lot of what he has to say about the dimensionality of mental disorder. Liked it very much.

Here are some other terms relevant to the history of borderline personality: hysteria, histrionic, hysteriod personality.

Know what the most prevalent diagnosis is? NOS. More people meet criteria for a mental disorder 'not otherwise specified' than meet criteria for any of the standard diagnoses. Kinda shows something of the inadequacy of the present categories...

It is funny how theory laden even descriptions of symptoms seem to be...