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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 314122" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Witz, Dr. Midwest Mom here <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/tongue.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":tongue:" title="tongue :tongue:" data-shortname=":tongue:" /> with my numerous degress in The School of Hard Knocks, has believed, ever since finding out about the symptoms of the disorder, that many of our young kids and most of our older kids who can't get it together have Borderline. I think it fits better. Also, people with personality disorders tend to have a combination. I'm just learning about them since I realize I have one (or several). I'm much better now, but it shocked me when I looked at borderline's symtpoms. I had a lot of them and still have to fight certain ones. There is help for it, but one has to be very committed to working very hard on themselves. The DSM is going to start calling it "Emotional Dysregulation Disorder" and my t-doctor tells me it will go from Axis II to Axis I (or at least many psychiatrists think it should). </p><p></p><p>Borderline Personality Disorder:</p><p></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, <a href="http://psychcentral.com/disorders/eating_disorders/" target="_blank">binge eating</a>)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or <a href="http://psychcentral.com/disorders/anxiety/" target="_blank">anxiety</a> usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Chronic feelings of emptiness</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty <a href="http://psychcentral.com/lib/2007/controlling-anger/" target="_blank">controlling anger</a> (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms</li> </ul><p>(my own notes)</p><p> <strong>Cutting and substance abuse are big red flags. These are the world's drama queens. They can be the sweetest people on earth. When they think they've been crossed or are being abandoned, they can be abusive.</strong></p><p><strong>Some medical professionals think it IS inherited. Adopted kids of problematic parents tend to have a higer criminal tendency than the average person...they are more like their biol. parents than their adoptive parents. I personally think my family of origin should be called The Personality Disorder Family. Father is sort of narcistic. Mom...borderline? Sister defilnitely borderline. Me, borderline and avoidant (better with lots of therapy). Brother is either Aspergers or avoidant. This doesn't include my funky extended relatives!!! No wonder none of us get along!!! </strong></p><p><strong></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 314122, member: 1550"] Witz, Dr. Midwest Mom here :raspberry-tounge: with my numerous degress in The School of Hard Knocks, has believed, ever since finding out about the symptoms of the disorder, that many of our young kids and most of our older kids who can't get it together have Borderline. I think it fits better. Also, people with personality disorders tend to have a combination. I'm just learning about them since I realize I have one (or several). I'm much better now, but it shocked me when I looked at borderline's symtpoms. I had a lot of them and still have to fight certain ones. There is help for it, but one has to be very committed to working very hard on themselves. The DSM is going to start calling it "Emotional Dysregulation Disorder" and my t-doctor tells me it will go from Axis II to Axis I (or at least many psychiatrists think it should). Borderline Personality Disorder: [LIST] [*]Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment [*]A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation [*]Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self [*]Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, [URL="http://psychcentral.com/disorders/eating_disorders/"]binge eating[/URL]) [*]Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior [*]Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or [URL="http://psychcentral.com/disorders/anxiety/"]anxiety[/URL] usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days) [*]Chronic feelings of emptiness [*]Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty [URL="http://psychcentral.com/lib/2007/controlling-anger/"]controlling anger[/URL] (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights) [*]Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms [/LIST] (my own notes) [B]Cutting and substance abuse are big red flags. These are the world's drama queens. They can be the sweetest people on earth. When they think they've been crossed or are being abandoned, they can be abusive. Some medical professionals think it IS inherited. Adopted kids of problematic parents tend to have a higer criminal tendency than the average person...they are more like their biol. parents than their adoptive parents. I personally think my family of origin should be called The Personality Disorder Family. Father is sort of narcistic. Mom...borderline? Sister defilnitely borderline. Me, borderline and avoidant (better with lots of therapy). Brother is either Aspergers or avoidant. This doesn't include my funky extended relatives!!! No wonder none of us get along!!! [/B] [/QUOTE]
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