sometimes think I might have bpd but that's the disorder my biomom used to armchair-diagnose me with to shut me up every time I talked about gender dysphoria so I'm kinda hostile to the idea
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
I'm not saying BPD doesn't correspond to a real set of symptoms or real underlying condition but it is important to keep in mind that the literal meaning of being "borderline" was "not crazy enough to lock up but too crazy to treat normally" (ie "borderline schizophrenia")
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
And historically and in the present day that's how the diagnosis was and is used by clinicians - "I would prefer not to treat this patient"
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lmao yeah that makes sense. I have a lot of personal skepticism about most of these tentpoles nowadays and have apprehensions about the degree to which they can be abused to emotionally extort loved ones
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The fact that BPD was an Axis II personality disorder (i.e. an "incurable" and permanent feature of who the person is) meant that it was an easy way to basically put "DON'T EVEN BOTHER" in someone's patient history This problem is why the latest DSM has abolished the axes
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