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Re:Ask HN: Hacking your brain after trauma and mental health... by caeril on Thursday October 24, 2024 @10:13AM (#41935697)
>> Borderline Personality Disorder

> First of all, I'm impressed, you're a real fighter

He may not have much control over it, but OP is 100% an abusive emotional terrorist. BPD "sufferers" are evil and the fact they can't control it doesn't make them any less so. Gassing up these people is not helpful, it is actively harmful.

You can't love the feral dog into not biting you.

Re:Ask HN: Hacking your brain after trauma and mental health... by squidgedcricket on Thursday October 24, 2024 @12:36PM (#41937145)
Are you trying to convince the OP to end their life?

A high-functioning BPD sufferer can learn to be aware of behaviors that negatively impact others and minimize them. OP is likely an individual like that.

Don't take hope from the hopeless.

Re:Ask HN: Hacking your brain after trauma and mental health... by taurath on Thursday October 24, 2024 @09:48PM (#41941586)
Stop that. You are projecting the pain that you suffered at the hands of an abuser onto someone you have never met.

Dehumanizing someone who is seeing a therapist and seeking help online trying to seek help is both legitimately unhelpful, and also actively harms people in recovery by casting doubt on whether getting help will help them get better.

Abusers with BPD exist, abusers without BPD exist. Abusers are abusers, being diagnosed with BPD doesn't make you an abuser. People with BPD are, almost definitionally, people who've been abused or clinically neglected, and are likely to be abused in adulthood as well.

https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/borderline-personali...

Finally, BPD is a set of symptoms, not a cause - for this reason, its a pretty contested diagnosis with a lot of stigma attached. Its often more accurate to think of it as a trauma disorder. 50% of people with BPD don't meet the clinical criteria (aka they don't have BPD) after 10 years in many studies - if it were truly an unchangeable thing, those numbers would not be possible.

Re:Ask HN: Hacking your brain after trauma and mental health... by mmooss on Friday October 25, 2024 @12:33AM (#41942225)
You seem to have a lot of pain but this is no place or way to act on it. I hope you find something better for yourself and for others.

> feral dog

Whose behavior seems out of control on this page?

Re:Ask HN: Hacking your brain after trauma and mental health... by gremlinsinc on Saturday October 26, 2024 @10:07AM (#41954798)
yeah, I'm hardly a feral dog. Seriously.

BPD is VERY manageable. Most of the time it's environmental and once you work through the childhood trauma it can almost disappear completely.

The op's post is dead, so I just wanted to chime in under yours to tell people it's not bad, and for me it's not that bad because I've got the harder to diagnose "silent" or high functioning brand.

Which is good and bad, I guess. Easier to treat, bad because it took me 44 years to figure out I had it.