I'm usually pretty good with the music titles. I just can't think of a good Wednesday song.
In my Wednesday group meeting we had a new girl come. She is 18 and looked like she is currently in a fragile state. There is another GUY who comes to our group every week. He was selling a place that is suppose to reach out to the Mental Health consumers. I think the place has more problems than it is worth.
This GUY was almost badgering her into going to this place. BPD's don'tlike to be cornered. They fight thier ways out of a corner. This is the defense mechanism that is built into a BPD.
I thought it was time to revisit BPD.
Borderline Personality Disorder - Diagnostic Criteria
A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:
1.) frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment.
Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5
2.) a pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation.
3.) identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self
4.) impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging. (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating. Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5.
5.) recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior.
6.) affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days
7.) inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights)
8.) transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptom
The italicized text is how these illnesses are displayed in me. I am doing much better now. Many of the symptoms I have been medicated for. I have a cocktail of medications that I take everyday. I fear that if I get off these medications that I will most assuredly return to my previous monster.
I call it my monster because that thing that I once was is just the opposite of Dr. Jeckle and Mr. Hyde. He took a potion to become the monster, whereas I take a potion to become...human.
In my Wednesday group meeting we had a new girl come. She is 18 and looked like she is currently in a fragile state. There is another GUY who comes to our group every week. He was selling a place that is suppose to reach out to the Mental Health consumers. I think the place has more problems than it is worth.
This GUY was almost badgering her into going to this place. BPD's don'tlike to be cornered. They fight thier ways out of a corner. This is the defense mechanism that is built into a BPD.
I thought it was time to revisit BPD.
Borderline Personality Disorder - Diagnostic Criteria
A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:
1.) frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment.
Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5
2.) a pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation.
3.) identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self
4.) impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging. (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating. Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5.
5.) recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior.
6.) affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days
7.) inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights)
8.) transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptom
The italicized text is how these illnesses are displayed in me. I am doing much better now. Many of the symptoms I have been medicated for. I have a cocktail of medications that I take everyday. I fear that if I get off these medications that I will most assuredly return to my previous monster.
I call it my monster because that thing that I once was is just the opposite of Dr. Jeckle and Mr. Hyde. He took a potion to become the monster, whereas I take a potion to become...human.
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