The multiple/borderline link

[drleanne.livejournal.com]

Here is a link to pages in a book called Borderline Personality Disorder, etiology and treatment that suggests a link btween BPD and MPD, tho this study is suggesting that the borderline did not have the full dissociative capacity to split which i admit iss different than what i presented earlier.

Google Book Link

Now the stuff that i was talking about earlier may have been declared defunct. I don't know. Thats cool if it is and i am sorry that I didn't have the most current information. And yes, I admit i may have over generalized when I said most.

This topic has been talked about with a psychologist friend of mine, and when I get together with her again I'll ask for more current journal entries and whatnot.

         

Comments

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

well, what I've always wondered is borderline between what and what??

Nicky

[coconutchica.livejournal.com]

from my research, btwn psychosis and neurosis. i know borderline is a weird diagnosis but its' the best one i have for what's wrong with me....

i mostly hate having no clue who i am. i defintely dissociate but more between my mind, body, and spirit. i consider them totally separate, and if i'm doing something with one of them, i can't really do something with another part. like, if i'm walking and carrying something, i'm consumed by my body, so my emotions just have to wait. i'll tell people that i'll care later. i can re-live my emotions at any time bc i just push them down if it's an inconvenient time to have them, bc they overwhelm my entier being. i feel them everywhere.

i'm entirely concrete. i'm like a little kid. when i try to make a metaphor or summarize something i just can't do it. i live moment to moment in the details of life, i have no concept of the big picture or probability or anything. that's why i have a huge fear of abandonment and suck at hypotheses and dont see any patterns. i just connect random things, mostly by words, bc words can't fail me. they are truth. i trust them. i can't trust people, they make mistakes. they can change from second to second and become different people, nice or not nice, good or bad, caring or cold.

so i just make rules for every person in every situation and try to only allow situations to happen that i like so that people will react how i like. and i only think its ok to have emotions that other ppl have so i always smile so that other people will so i can relax inside and know i can have a real smile then.

it's very confusing.

[tej-agni.livejournal.com]

that sounds like a spiritual issue instead of just a mind one. Like finding a way to ground mind, body, and spirit and allowing them to work in harmony. Of course that sounds like when a therapist would say that plural people need to merge into one and work in harmony. lol so what do I know?

-Butterfly

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

Some of what you say here sounds neurological / cognitive, not an emotional or mental illness. Have you been checked out for developmental disability or a developmental phase disorder?

[tej-agni.livejournal.com]

between what the doctor considers normal and what is considered not normal? Maybe every therapist has their own ideas on what is normal.

-Butterfly

[tahaton.livejournal.com]

Good question. I thought about it just now and wondered maybe if it's a reference to the way people with borderline can switch from idolising to demonising so fast, rather than having a genuine opinion one way or another. That's my random speculation anyway :)