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summerblossom -> RE: My doctors are trying to take control of my life. (2/27/2008 3:23:46 PM)
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DOLL-I don't know if my post might get lost among these long 7 pages but I will try my best to give what information I know of. From reading along these posts that the OP made and others I noticed one post mentioned she might have Borderline and I wanted to see if, after reading this she feels she might have it. If not than thats okay but I do know alot about many mental disorders and have studied them for years and years as well as had many in person experiences with many other people that have suffered from various mental disorders as well as myself.
Many people are often wrongly diagnosed as Bi Polar just because it is one of the most common mental diagnoses and many therapists are too lazy to take the time to make a proper diagnoses. It is very important to have a label, even though some may not agree and I will tell you why. If you have a rare mental disorder it actually needs to be treated differently in therapy and usually with a very special therapist that specializes in that particular disorder and uses a special type of therapy. Psychotherapy , the (just get off your ass and do better) approach does not work for everyone, and can in fact, make many people worse, especially those with a personality disorder. There are other types of therapy and therapists that might be better suited to you than whomever you are seeing now.
For the disorder I am going to elaborate on, for example, you are right in that medications for the most part do not work because it is based in the person's core personality and not based on their brain chemicals.
Borderline Personality Disorder
1- Feelings of chronic emptyness and lonelyness
2- Suicidal ideation (frequent thoughts of death and dying)
3- Very poor interpersonal relationships with others
4- Seeing things in black and white, something either is or it isin't with no grey area in between
5- Extreme emotional sensitivity to critisism of any kind
6- Frequent feelings of annoyance and agitation lasting many hours
7- Constant moodiness feeling depressed one minute, angry the next (but no highs and lows like bi polar
8- Self mutilation, cutting, picking skin, or other forms of hurting oneself
9- Poor and/or underdeveloped self image
There is more to this if you need it. It is usually treated with Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and the person suffering from this was most like sexually, emotionally, or physically abused in the past or grew up in a very invalidating environment where the person was told 'you are wrong, what your feeling is wrong' over and over again.
A person with this disorder sometimes has other, underlying disorders. Eating disorders are also common. It can also be common that the person with this disorder was teased in school too. I could go on and on but I will stop here. I hope this helps and if anyone needs more information let me know.
Thanks
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