lots of high minded intentions and arguments on the medical provider side are about categorizing the disorder for scientific/treatment reasons but for the rest of us it's basically a passcode+figuring out which google searches might lead to resources
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I was very relieved when a professional told me "you have BPD and OCD traits", because that gave me the legitimacy to go away and learn. Sort of shut down my resistance. I appear to have a script. "It's totally fine for other people to have mental illness, but I mustn't." Sigh.
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check out comorbidity of OCD, CPTSD, autism, ADHD, etc, if you need a little more permission to go off and research (I feel like I'm being pressure-y, but the intent is to expand your optionality if you want it, rather than nudge you one way or another)
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No pressuring vibes at all. I will go and check these out though.
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(CPTSD is a modern-ish formulation of a cluster of symptoms that map to BPD)
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I have That CPTSD Book and got stuck when I felt like the author was coercing me onto thinking my parents were actively terrible people. But I will give it another go and assume he is just talking about his own experience.
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hm I kinda interpreted this shtick as "they really sucked at this important thing", doesn't translate to them being bad people/abusing me on purpose/etc etc. You can say your parents fucked up at something without thinking them evil!
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Replying to @bubbleteaPhD @selentelechia and
Michael Ashcroft (18/100 YouTube videos) Retweeted Michael Ashcroft (18/100 YouTube videos)
That's not how I read it unfortunatelyhttps://twitter.com/m_ashcroft/status/1316002418921013254?s=19 …
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Michael Ashcroft (18/100 YouTube videos) @m_ashcroftReplying to @m_ashcroft @__justplaying and 3 othersPerhaps I am deep in delusion, but I could never sit well with this language. I felt like I was being brainwashed, or like the author thought he had a duty to un-brainwash me pic.twitter.com/9MTUrcepki2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes -
Replying to @m_ashcroft @bubbleteaPhD and
Honestly I had the same read as you. I think he probably had shitty parents and has attracted clients who are like him and between the two has come to the conclusion that everyone with problems had parents who are like that.
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Replying to @GeniesLoki @m_ashcroft and
I still got a fair bit out of the book but it required a very "I don't agree with you but will try to find value in what you are saying anyway" attitude to a lot of it.
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Replying to @GeniesLoki @m_ashcroft and
I wonder if https://www.rewriting-the-rules.com/self/trauma-and-cptsd-101/ … would be a better entry point?
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