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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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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Replying to @adrienneleigh @arthur_affect
oh man that makes the armchair diagnosis shit super dark
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @adrienneleigh
Yeah it's the victim blaming "This is just the way you are" thing
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It's telling that, for instance, in PTSD it's well established that "reenacting" the initial trauma is a maladaptive coping mechanism, but with BPD we just say people with this personality type are "drawn to abusive relationships" like it's genetic
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Or like how in PTSD we describe "dissociation" as something that *happens to you* as the brain's tool for surviving a traumatic experience but we describe BPD patients as having a "weak sense of self" like that's just a fact about them
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