Posted by Mitch on August 7, 2001, at 9:21:16
In reply to let me restate..., posted by sillygrrl on August 7, 2001, at 2:56:16
> hey folks,
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> that wasn't very nice of me to refer to borderline folks as manipulative and desperate. Sorry about that. I think I have a very sour attitude towards the diagnosis because it was thrown at me and others I know who very clearly had other issues, and my mother, who was quite cruel and unstable, most likely has the disorder.
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> sillygrrlsg,
Well those are some of the current *traits* of having that disorder. I thought that it was some form of subset of bipolar or subset of ADHD. Given that sexual abuse occurs more often to women than men in their childhood and that a high number of BPD people were abused makes me wonder if it is a combination of bipolar genetics combined with the psycho-social trauma of abuse as a child (sexual and physical PTSD if you will). That might account for a lot of the traits commonly associated with it even *cruelty* that you mentioned.
Mitch
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