[MENTION=5375]chulo[/MENTION] for the sake of being fair to people wiht BPD That clip was about Lisa -- who is actually supposed to be a sociopath. The borderline patient in the book/movie was actually Winona Ryders character
[MENTION=5375]chulo[/MENTION] for the sake of being fair to people wiht BPD That clip was about Lisa -- who is actually supposed to be a sociopath. The borderline patient in the book/movie was actually Winona Ryders character
I am just going to pop in here and say, having had some experience with people who suffer badly from bpd, it is incredibly painful and debilitating, and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. You can call it a disorder or a disease, or whatever you want, it is terrifying, and not very sexy either. Just FYI. Personally, it is frightening to me. Sort of like alzheimers -- it steals your personality and takes over. Makes me understand why people came up with the idea of demon posession or "keeping demons down." Very very very bad.
LOL Sorry Lisa is just fucking nuts.
Now I'm going to chime in for [MENTION=5375]chulo[/MENTION] to say that..You can call it a disorder or a disease, or whatever you want, it is terrifying, and not very sexy either. Just FYI.
Media and pop culture also plays a part in confusing the social context. There aren't really a lot of good, profound, and realistic representations in media, as far as PTSD and C-PTSD are concerned. Few long lasting damage are shown. A lot of times they serve only as plot device. Other times they serves to merely 'distinguish' the character, offering nothing else but the disorder as characterization. More often, the portrayal are often tragic, drastic; sometimes even violent. Almost always dramatic. Even with the prevalence of the disorder, the depictions of these are rare and at times unsatisfactory.
Few times were spent showing the repercussions for people living together with the patient. Fewer were spent showing how the people diagnosed, the patients, are living, managing, and dealing with their disorder. And even fewer times are spent showing the progress, the relapse, the struggle. All it takes is one revelation, one dramatic action, one romantic scene, and all seems to be healed with no everlasting repercussions, the victim's life all fallen into place. With acceptable reasons, as far as storytelling purposes are concerned, but socially it gives an unhealthy picture of people diagnosed with PTSD and C-PTSD. Not only aren't they giving enough education to the general public, they are giving the wrong ideas, implications, and insinuations.
Agreed.
C-PTSD on the other hand, I don't think it shares that scariness.
I think that's debatable personally. How do you mean exactly?
Someone with C-PTSD isn't considered as potentially dangerous or destructive I guess is a better word, as someone with BPD; am I wrong?
I'm not saying that all borderlines are dangerous either FYI.
Someone with C-PTSD isn't considered as potentially dangerous or destructive I guess is a better word, as someone with BPD; am I wrong?
I'm not saying that all borderlines are dangerous either FYI.
I hope it helps.People suffering Complex PTSD as a result of bullying report consistent symptoms which further help to characterize psychiatric injury and differentiate it from mental illness. These include:
Fatigue with symptoms of or similar to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
An anger of injustice stimulated to an excessive degree (sometimes but improperly attracting the words “manic” instead of motivated, “obsessive” instead of focused, and “angry” instead of “passionate”, especially from those with something to fear)
An overwhelming desire for acknowledgement, understanding, recognition and validation of their experience
A simultaneous and paradoxical unwillingness to talk about the bullying (working past it)
A lack of desire for revenge, but a strong motivation for justice
A tendency to oscillate between conciliation (forgiveness) and anger (revenge) with objectivity being the main casualty
Extreme fragility, where formerly the person was of a strong, stable character
Numbness, both physical (toes, fingertips, and lips) and emotional (inability to feel love and joy)
Clumsiness
Forgetfulness
Hyperawareness and an acute sense of time passing, seasons changing, and distances travelled
An enhanced environmental awareness, often on a planetary scale
An appreciation of the need to adopt a healthier diet, possibly reducing or eliminating meat - especially red meat
Willingness to try complementary medicine and alternative, holistic therapies, etc
A constant feeling that one has to justify everything one says and does
A constant need to prove oneself, even when surrounded by good, positive people
An unusually strong sense of vulnerability, victimization or possible victimization, often wrongly diagnosed as “persecution”
Occasional violent intrusive visualizations
Feelings of worthlessness, rejection, a sense of being unwanted, unlikeable and unlovable
A feeling of being small, insignificant, and invisible
An overwhelming sense of betrayal, and a consequent inability and unwillingness to trust anyone, even those close to you
In contrast to the chronic fatigue, depression etc, occasional false dawns with sudden bursts of energy accompanied by a feeling of “I’m better!”, only to be followed by a full resurgence of symptoms a day or two later
Excessive guilt - when the cause of PTSD is bullying, the guilt expresses itself in forms distinct from “survivor guilt”; it comes out as:
• an initial reluctance to take action against the bully and report him/her
• later, this reluctance gives way to a strong urge to take action against the bully so that others, especially successors, don’t have to suffer a similar fate
• reluctance to feel happiness and joy because one’s sense of other people’s suffering throughout the world is heightened
• a proneness to identifying with other people’s suffering
• a heightened sense of unworthiness, undeservingness and non-entitlement (some might call this shame)
• a heightened sense of indebtedness, beholdenness and undue obligation
• a reluctance to earn or accept money because one’s sense of poverty and injustice throughout the world is heightened
• an unwillingness to take ill-health retirement because the person doesn’t want to believe they are sufficiently unwell to merit it
• an unwillingness to draw sickness, incapacity or unemployment benefit to which the person is entitled