Personality Disorders Support Group
Personality disorders form a class of mental disorders that are characterized by long-lasting rigid patterns of thought and behaviour. Personality disorders are seen by the American Psychiatric Association as an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the culture of the individual who exhibits it.
I just stumbled upon an enlightening site that talks about BPD in the positive light. Here is a list of traits according to Alain Tortosa:
"On my own experience, BPD people have almost all (at least inside of them) of the following characters traits:
Please note: The question does not concern the possible negative consequences of such traits (it is not always "funny" to be hypersensitive).Nor does it concern the possible inability to put these traits into practice because of the disorder, denial or depression. I can for example be very sensitive inside, but nevertheless give the impression that I'm as cold as marble... nonetheless, the fact remains that sensitivity in one of my character traits.
Altruism (natural tendency to love and help one's fellowmen)
Self-derision (capacity to laugh at oneself)
Kind-hearted
Creativity
Curiosity (desire to understand, to know, to learn)
Empathy (capacity to put oneself in someone's else's position and to feel what he / she is feeling)(e.g. if I see a person who is suffering, I will start to feel her suffering in I don't reject my emotions)
Enthusiasm (High emotion with pleasure expression)
Very demanding of oneself
Strength of character (e.g. To be able to endure things that many others would not be capable of enduring for long)
Generosity (tendency to give without calculating)
Modesty (absence of vanity or pride)
Naivety ("Childish innocence")
Open-mindedness ("willing to consider ideas and opinions that are new or different to your own")
Probity ("Uprightness, integrity, honesty", justice in a "moral" meaning)
Taking a new look at oneself ("ability to consider that our hypothesis or beliefs are potentially erroneous")
Sensitivity"
Every one of these traits hit a bullseye for me, and the site ( http://www.emophane.org/emophany.html ), despite its poor English translation, is very uplifting.
"On my own experience, BPD people have almost all (at least inside of them) of the following characters traits:
Please note: The question does not concern the possible negative consequences of such traits (it is not always "funny" to be hypersensitive).Nor does it concern the possible inability to put these traits into practice because of the disorder, denial or depression. I can for example be very sensitive inside, but nevertheless give the impression that I'm as cold as marble... nonetheless, the fact remains that sensitivity in one of my character traits.
Altruism (natural tendency to love and help one's fellowmen)
Self-derision (capacity to laugh at oneself)
Kind-hearted
Creativity
Curiosity (desire to understand, to know, to learn)
Empathy (capacity to put oneself in someone's else's position and to feel what he / she is feeling)(e.g. if I see a person who is suffering, I will start to feel her suffering in I don't reject my emotions)
Enthusiasm (High emotion with pleasure expression)
Very demanding of oneself
Strength of character (e.g. To be able to endure things that many others would not be capable of enduring for long)
Generosity (tendency to give without calculating)
Modesty (absence of vanity or pride)
Naivety ("Childish innocence")
Open-mindedness ("willing to consider ideas and opinions that are new or different to your own")
Probity ("Uprightness, integrity, honesty", justice in a "moral" meaning)
Taking a new look at oneself ("ability to consider that our hypothesis or beliefs are potentially erroneous")
Sensitivity"
Every one of these traits hit a bullseye for me, and the site ( http://www.emophane.org/emophany.html ), despite its poor English translation, is very uplifting.
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I have been here before, a long long time ago and now I am back.Forgive me for not just saying what I want to say,even under a triple dose of antidepressants it is still raw and seeping and I am hesitant at revealing it as at least under the bandages around my heart I don,t have to look at how raw and wounded.My child was cleaved from my heart by his own actions. my child of ten,turning eleven...
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Has anyone tried these supplements? Do they give MGers more quality of life by improving memory and overall well being?Thanks!Barbel
But this makes more sense to me. I can see how these good traits can warp under pressure, and with that knowledge, maybe we can find some strength.
That ws fantastic...the first time I EVER read anything positive about BPD.
Thank you SO Much!!