Posted by BirdSong on June 10, 2009, at 21:22:42
In reply to Re: I did what you suggested Dinah » BirdSong, posted by Dinah on June 10, 2009, at 20:51:23
Dinah - I did not say medication was not useful. It is sedating and calming, but what I have seen posted on this forum are posts and responses of behavioral patterns that are clearly indicative of a very-well-known and described cycle in psychology.
That cycle is broken by correct therapy; it is not broken by medication because the cycle is a behavioral pattern. Rejection/abandonment and punishment. Medication may calm and sedate, but once the cycle is started, until the person gets the response that they want, it will not end. That is why people consider borderlines manipulative. The behaviors have a purpose. Sedating a borderline who is starting the cycle may calm them, but they will still threaten suicide, harming themselves, etc, because of the behavioral cycle. The behaviors are used to (a) communicate needs and (b) get what they want.
A personality-disordered individual must become aware of (a) the cycle, (b) their behaviors, (c) the impact of their behaviors, (d) ways to soothe themselves, and (e) learn ways to identify their needs and ask for what they need correctly.Medication does not alter the behavioral patterns. What alters a personality disordered behavioral pattern is therapy...and there are certain therapies that are highly successful in stopping this cycle that is displayed.
That's all I am saying.
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