On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 06:18, Ian Cheong wrote:
> "Borderline" patients are a long-term project
> that can be helped towards cure. I have a couple
> of them who have eventually been relabelled
> correctly as "dissociative" rather than
> "borderline" and are moving towards cure after a
> long trail of different psychiatrists over
> decades who didn't manage to help them. It seems
> they often fall over at "...that was a long time
> ago...get over it...."
I was having a really interesting talk with one yesterday. Her education
didn't get far enough for her to understand much of the term "borderline
personality disorder" but i've told her it's because she doesn't fit into any
of the other categories (and I had to pick a label for 'the computer')
Interesting talk, because when she was a troubled teenager from 1982 on, lots
of 'helping people' told her that they knew what was wrong ' her father had
interfered with her'. No one asked what was true or false - she had witnessed
her alcoholic father nearly kill her mother by strangulation. I ran late
yesterday, and made her promise to make a double appointment and tell me more
of the story next week.
--
When love is gone, there's always justice.
And when justice is gone, there's always force.
And when force is gone, there's always Mom.
Hi, Mom!
-- Laurie Anderson
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