Posted by Elizabeth on August 9, 2001, at 10:11:30
In reply to Re: let me restate..., posted by Survivor on August 9, 2001, at 1:46:19
> I've never heard of BPD referred to as a subset of ADHD, although that doesn't surprise me.
Some people labelled "borderline" have been found to respond to stimulants. To conclude that BPD is therefore the same thing as ADHD would be faulty logic, but some people do so anyway. As you point out, there are similarities.
> I've heard it diagnosed as a temporal lobe dysfunction rather than a psychiatric disorder, but aren't a lot of these problems based in the temporal lobe?
Yes. The idea of BPD = epilepsy is probably flawed, although interictal emotional problems related to temporal lobe epilepsy can resemble "borderline" symptoms.
> ... I wonder if the behavior that results is actually a new disorder of some kind or simply the understandable outcome of a highly dangerous, uncontrollable childhood.
I don't think that the two are mututally exclusive. Posttraumatic stress disorder, for example, has sometimes been described as a normal response to an abnormal or unusual event.
> Maybe BPD is much closer to PTSD than any other recognized disorder when it grows out of such disordered surroundings, if a psychiatric diagnosis is desired.
Have you ever heard of the concept of "complex PTSD?"
-elizabeth
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