Posted by alexandra_k on December 12, 2004, at 17:05:03
In reply to Re: I don't get it » fires, posted by alexandra_k on December 12, 2004, at 16:55:37
Yeah, okay, so no doubt my response just confirms your already low opinion of my diagnosis. Not only that, but considering that you do not distinguish between people and what they have been diagnosed with no doubt my above post just confirms your already low opinion of me.
I take what you have to say extremely personally because BPD is the diagnosis that provokes more judgement than anything else (aside from maybe DID).
But you really have no idea.
If you actually care to broaden your mind I suggest you read "Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder".
Imagine what it may be like to be an emotionally sensitive and intense child who is met by the world by abuse and emotional invalidation so that when you try to say how you feel you are told not to be stupid or worse. You learn that your emotional responses are unacceptable so you try to repress them as best you can. But then they come out so intense that you think you are going to die and you do not even know that they are emotions. You hate yourself and who you are so much that you cut and burn and so on. And then to be told that such things are 'attention seeking' is just oh so ironic when the only way people found out was when they strip searched you.
That is my experience.
My experience is that clinicians are judgemental towards people who experience BPD because they get frustrated that there is no magic pill. There is nothing they can do to make it stop or make it go away. After a while that turns into countertransference and blaming the victim.
I really don't get you and your attitude.
I consider your post to be completely unsupportive of people with this diagnosis.
And completely judgemental.
If you cannot change your attitude, or at least refrain from expressing it I would request that you do not post to me.
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