Mental Health Update

Good post on borderline personality disorder:

"Diagnosed with depression and borderline personality disorder" - That's a hell of a diagnosis. Co-morbidity is common among the mentally ill but borderline personality disorder is about as bad as it gets without actually moving into the psychotic disorders. BPD can produce psychotic episodes but is not characterized by them. This needed treatment, lots of it. No one with a mental illness can pull themselves up by their boot straps and both of these disorders can lead to very destructive behaviour. Many of the behaviours of the mentally ill are those they learned to use to cope with in disordered environments. As bad as the disease is, the stigma attached to it can be worse. So either you are deliberately and stupidly eccentric or you are a nut case. Pick one! Live with that! The behaviour of people towards the mentally ill is often what starts the downward spiral, thus the stigma increases the likelihood of the disorder becoming worse.

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