Posted by SLS on June 13, 2009, at 5:19:00
In reply to Re: I feel stigmatized » SLS, posted by Dinah on June 12, 2009, at 19:34:44
> No. It is one of the reasons that I don't believe in the notion that personality disorders are unrelated to physiology.
I don't delve much into Axis II phenomena, but have some experience with people whom suffer from BPD. I can almost guarantee you that there is a pshysiological component to this condition.
> 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.
Probably, but I think each diagnosis would have to be reevaluated individually.
> If I were in charge,Aaaah!!!
> 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.
That is an interesting way to look at it. I don't think I fully understand what you are saying here, but there is so much interindividual consistency in the way in which people with BPD react to the same stimulus, it is hard to imagine that there is a universality of coping mechanisms rather than a universality of brain circuitry in this condition. That's just a supposition on my part, though.
- Scott
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