There is a heap in your posts. @Former-Member I cant respond to it all atm, but I wanted to say to you I hear you about being treated badly in the choir. It can be very disturbing, even when we know it is the other person's problem. Singing opens up our hearts and the connectedness to ourselves and the people around us matter.
I have needed to post about these kind of issues as they get in the way of me being social and cause a lot of ruminating and self doubt and triggering of rejection and abandonment feelings.
BPD is a big deal.
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For me things are still too much like soup, and not a nice clear alphabet soup. The "spectrums" are many. My brother was diagnosed with BPD sometimes, but it was changed according to whether the doctors wanted to detain or discharge him. That was in the weekend of closing Montt Park and he died, so I call him a martyr to the psychiatric de-institutionalisation movement.
It is good that there are more therapies available now. Each person is unique but there is not always enough attention to specific needs.
Mostly my "therapy" has been a counsellor mentioning the outline of a therapy but rarely following through, as too much was really going on. Now I am older and my youngest child is "adult". I have more time to go through things, but it is a little bit like closing the gate after the horse has bolted. Anyway "therapy" has been one strand of my life. Cost me a bloomin fortune, so these days it is good to be able to have a little money to spend on other things than necessities. I count myself lucky in some ways, but the tragedies were real, and rarely properly acknowledged. Most people simply cannot cope with hearing about it.
@saturnzoon I would think attention to your boys issues and a family therapy dynamic, would be as important as focussing on your label or diagnosis. Its all interconnected. IMO
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