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 CarolynOsborne rated 8 months ago- One of the things I most like about the web is how blogs can help people to understand each other better. This is an excellent blog in that respect, because the writer helps the reader to understand his life with borderline personality disorder along with other mental health issues. When we can un...
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- missmeganbunny rated 7 months ago
- Very helpful info for me personally as I've been trying to figure out whether my diagnosis is accurate or not.
"Since my last post a number of people have emailed asking for a more descriptive explanation of the different Borderline Personality Disorder self images so that is what I will attempt to do. This is also the area where a lot of people seem to confuse BPD and Bipolar disorder. Both disorders do have their high and low periods but the main difference is time where someone with Borderline may experience several mood switched though out a single day someone with Bipolar may enter the one mood frame for up to months at a time. I really have not studied Bipolar in great depth so if I am wrong again someone speak up but I am pretty sure this is right.
Keep in mind the Borderline Personality Disorder highs and lows are not really emotions but based off of perception that comes from a false self image. I think the easiest way to do this is to bring up a number of different situations and show it from both the high and low perspective as it relates to BPD.
Relationships -
A) High - The person I am with is the most beautiful, intelligent, caring, understanding woman I have ever met and I will do anything to maintain this perfect relationship. The other person should be thankful for having someone like me in their life
B) Low - This person is nothing but an aggravation to me who is constantly looking for ways to bring me down and add to the misery in my life. If I could handle being alone then this woman would have been kicked to the curb a long time ago.
- This is all talking about the same person but just a different perspective so when things are going well they are really going well but when they are bad they are really bad. I have been a number of relationships that can be measured in years that were going absolutely amazing on all levels until my brain saw something it took as a threat and I ended up in a low BPD perspective then watched the relationship crumble unless I could figure out what I saw as a threat really was not a threat at all.
Me -
A) High - I am always right, I understand the situation better then anyone else in my life especially the so called `professionals`. I walk into any room and I am immediately the center of attention for I am that good. I can walk through fire and not get burned as I am basically invincible.
B) Low - I am always wrong so it is better to lock myself in the house and stay away from people so they don`t have the opportunity to hurt me. I walk into the room and everyone stares because I look like cousin It. If a situation is bad chances are I will get the short end of the stick every time. My doctors are all against me and they keep adding more and more bricks to the wall so there is no chance of recovery."
- CarolynOsborne rated 8 months ago
- One of the things I most like about the web is how blogs can help people to understand each other better. This is an excellent blog in that respect, because the writer helps the reader to understand his life with borderline personality disorder along with other mental health issues. When we can understand each other, we can get along better.
- troilee rated 8 months ago
- This is a great post. I have a relationship with someone who believes himself to be bipolar and we'd always thought he was. After reading this, however, I'm beginning to suspect that it's BPD instead. I think I'm going to use this site as a jumping off point for some research. Great post!
- AbleReach rated 8 months ago
- The inside view on mental health problems, from a former mental health professional. An enlightening and extremely frank blog.
- babybooangel rated 8 months ago
- Very interesting article/blog on mental health issues of depressions
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