BPD seems to be having a resurgence. I know of at least three people diagnosed with it, and none would ever be abusive to staff. One seems normal and lovely but apparently sends 20+ texts to her boyfriend every day, the other is very introverted and shy but is borderline alcoholic and the third is the person I’m closest to - who I think has Asperger’s type traits yet apparently has BPD. All of these diagnoses seem completely bonkers to me. I think it just means unexplainable painful female traits that have no healthy outlet in our modern society.
The whole system of "personality diagnosis" in psychiatry is a mishmash of bias and pseudoscience. I have posted a chapter to Academia.edu, copy and paste this link (I can't insert hyperlinks in comments):
BPD seems to be having a resurgence. I know of at least three people diagnosed with it, and none would ever be abusive to staff. One seems normal and lovely but apparently sends 20+ texts to her boyfriend every day, the other is very introverted and shy but is borderline alcoholic and the third is the person I’m closest to - who I think has Asperger’s type traits yet apparently has BPD. All of these diagnoses seem completely bonkers to me. I think it just means unexplainable painful female traits that have no healthy outlet in our modern society.
The whole system of "personality diagnosis" in psychiatry is a mishmash of bias and pseudoscience. I have posted a chapter to Academia.edu, copy and paste this link (I can't insert hyperlinks in comments):
https://uq.academia.edu/NiallMcLaren
All I can say is that you obviously score about ZERO on the A button! (I’m quite a low score on this as well….)