I have Borderline Personality Disorder and it has not been particularly good existing so far. As far as therapy goes, in my district (in Kerala), I am trying to find a solid therapist trained in DBT. Shit is exhausting, are there any practical way of dealing with this that doesn’t involving forking over an obscene amount of money? I seem to have a lot of ADHD symptoms as well. Quite exhausting.
Adding fascist India shenanigans on top of it, I am really tired. Reading theory is helping and I understand that things are changeable but how do I not fall into doomerism? especially in a country where every month feels more fascistic than the last.
Any comrades with BPD or any other mental health struggles here? How do you cope?
I just tried to look up some books for this, and it is an absolute nightmare. “Literature” and workbooks on this subject seem to evaluate/address the patient in an intolerably condescending and frequently misogynistic way. I mean, the one I just read didn’t even use a male example in their prompt and it was all about boyfriends and getting into subcultures. Just kinda bumping in the meantime but that was more frustrating than most research areas, FYI.
The books and such I have checked seem to be insanely misogynistic. Barely anything about male BPD as well, and that is also what I particularly need examples for in my case. There isn’t any bit of humanity given to these examples either. Its frustrating. Isn’t this over diagnosed in women as well?
Thanks for the bump.
Yes, it does get overdiagnosed. Woman with CPTSD? Slap her with borderline. Neurodivergent traits that differ from the male standard presentation? Also borderline. While it is a legitimate disorder that requires psychiatric care, we cannot ignore how the way it is diagnosed harms women, perpetuates harmful gender stereotypes and stigmatizes female specific patterns of reacting to trauma. And outside of actual psychiatric practice, the general public absolutely treats it as the modern day version of hysterical woman syndrome and loves to armchair diagnose women who step out of line with it as a form of social control.