Posted by Dinah on June 12, 2009, at 19:34:44
In reply to Re: I feel stigmatized » Dinah, posted by SLS on June 12, 2009, at 17:51:14
No. It is one of the reasons that I don't believe in the notion that personality disorders are unrelated to physiology.
The link is to only a part of what are identified as borderline behaviors, but it seems to me that Axis II is more biological than it is currently conceived.
If I were in charge, I'd do away with it entirely as a standalone diagnosis, and consider it more as a cluster of characteristic coping mechanisms. For borderline anyway.
The schizoid/schizotypal cluster might be different, and more related to thought disorder than mood disorder.
Linehan includes in her borderline description swift arousal and slow return to baseline, or something like that. I have always thought that more attention ought to be paid to that.
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