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.
(sorry in advance for all the misspellindgs)I'm not a pro but I do see well meaning family and friends make some misstakes here. I know that you want to get your loved ones help but unless your a doctor you can't say a person suffers from a dissorder. All dissorders have to meet a certian nubmer of criera to be diagnosed with them. I'm a borderline and as one I have to meet 5 out of 9 critera to be one. Some of my syomptions cross over into other personilty dissorders but I don't meet the critera to have them. Also there are many sites that are written by people who think they know about mental illness but are not doctors or don;t suffer from them do there is pleanty of damagening info out there that can hinder your loved ones by reading them. Wikipedia is nortorious for this. I've read things that are so wrong about my dissorder there that if I was not so well informed on it that would damage my treatment and recovery. I know all of you people mean well but if you think your loved ones have something talk to a doctor ang get their opion on it then talk to your loved one on getting help. The thing is that some personility dissorders and clinical mental illness (like bi-polr, post trumitic, and depperssion to name a few) mimic each other and the wrong infi can delay the right treatment. Also people can suffer a clinical illness and personility dissorder at the same time( I' also bi-polar) so the right treatment is crutial. I'm not a doctor myself but a person who sufferes and was not told by people that I suffred from a personilty dissoredr because they thought someone else told me. There was so many things in my life that could of been avoided and worked on earlier if I was told of the dissorder soner. So please do your loved ones good get them to someone who can diagnose them and get them the help thet need. When they get diagnosed you can always come back here to get support for them and you since this is a most helpful place. I relise that I can get flamed for this But I meen well for everybody who comes here looking for help and advice. Flame sute on ponygirl.
I too only have about 4-5 things that meet the criteria for BPD, but i still meet it.
Oh, yeah and do not worry about the spelling, i unedrstood you perfectly and i can't spell to save my life, hehehe..I use an electronic lil dictionary, but sometimes i don't feel like using it....
As long as we understand each other, this is not english class.