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<blockquote data-quote="Ettina" data-source="post: 538699" data-attributes="member: 12668"><p>OK, quite possibly going to be really unpopular for saying this, but this whole thread sent up red flags for me. What if your daughter really <em>was</em> abused? Abusers don't come with neon signs on their foreheads. I know of people who were married to child sexual abuse perpetrators and didn't know it.</p><p></p><p>The vast majority of people with Borderline (BPD) were abused (around 70-90%). This is an established fact. Not all Borderline (BPD) individuals were abused, but the vast majority were. And yes, there is a genetic component, but it's typically more on the level of determining what <em>kind</em> of problems the kid will get if abused. They haven't just determined this by asking Borderline (BPD) individuals - for example, <a href="http://guilfordjournals.com/doi/abs/10.1521/pedi.2009.23.5.433?journalCode=pedi" target="_blank">I've found a prospective study</a> following up on a bunch of kids with well-documented abuse that found much higher rates of Borderline (BPD) in those kids. And that's <em>not</em> in the 'bad old days' of recovered memory therapy (which was bunk). This study was 2009.</p><p></p><p>And it is possible to have been abused and not remember it. Research shows that while recovered memory <em>therapy</em> typically results in false memories, people who recover memories all by themselves are about as likely to be able to find external corroboration as those who never forgot the abuse. And therapists planting memories only happens if they use hypnosis, or if they push the issue really hard - just asking about abuse is not going to create false memories, and is in fact good psychiatric practice.</p><p></p><p>On the balance of things, with the OP's case, I'll have to come out as pretty unsure. And it makes me really uneasy the way the rest of you automatically assumed that she was right about her daughter not having been abused.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ettina, post: 538699, member: 12668"] OK, quite possibly going to be really unpopular for saying this, but this whole thread sent up red flags for me. What if your daughter really [I]was[/I] abused? Abusers don't come with neon signs on their foreheads. I know of people who were married to child sexual abuse perpetrators and didn't know it. The vast majority of people with Borderline (BPD) were abused (around 70-90%). This is an established fact. Not all Borderline (BPD) individuals were abused, but the vast majority were. And yes, there is a genetic component, but it's typically more on the level of determining what [I]kind[/I] of problems the kid will get if abused. They haven't just determined this by asking Borderline (BPD) individuals - for example, [URL="http://guilfordjournals.com/doi/abs/10.1521/pedi.2009.23.5.433?journalCode=pedi"]I've found a prospective study[/URL] following up on a bunch of kids with well-documented abuse that found much higher rates of Borderline (BPD) in those kids. And that's [I]not[/I] in the 'bad old days' of recovered memory therapy (which was bunk). This study was 2009. And it is possible to have been abused and not remember it. Research shows that while recovered memory [I]therapy[/I] typically results in false memories, people who recover memories all by themselves are about as likely to be able to find external corroboration as those who never forgot the abuse. And therapists planting memories only happens if they use hypnosis, or if they push the issue really hard - just asking about abuse is not going to create false memories, and is in fact good psychiatric practice. On the balance of things, with the OP's case, I'll have to come out as pretty unsure. And it makes me really uneasy the way the rest of you automatically assumed that she was right about her daughter not having been abused. [/QUOTE]
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