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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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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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Most of the discourse around BPD right now is over whether or not it's actually separate from PTSD, and whether calling it a "personality disorder" is just a way to blame lifelong sufferers of abuse for their symptoms
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Like the whole difference is supposed to be that people with PTSD used to not have it before something happened to them Which means BPD patients may be stigmatized just for having been traumatized as far back as they can remember
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I'm oversimplifying, and defenders of the BPD diagnosis like to point out physically observable differences in the "BPD brain" But, well, brains physically react to the environment in which they develop
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