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Thanks Jones and Peng. It means a lot hearing from you guys.

I can't go back to the thread. I picture people telling about how horrible their interactions with people with BPD has been. The truth is that all mental illness takes its tole on those around them. My father had PTSD from fighting in WWII and he took that out on his kids. He whacked out. So it's my belief that all disorders can cause pain and havoc in the lives of all affected by them. The problem with BPD is that the mental health profession has blamed them for decades for their disorder. They have treated BPDs as though they were malingering, manipulative, bad people. Now they know better but the stigma remains. I firmly believe that BPD is a disorder born out of trauma. It was for me anyway. My T says I have other things wrong as well. (Great!) but we are treating the BPD. I think I am going to quit all therapy. I think I have had it with this world of psychological evaluation and treatment. DBT is one of the hardest therapies around as far as in the psychological recover world. I have never seen such a complicated and painful course of treatment as DBT. I am unwilling to do it at this time. Although having read the nearly 600 page treatment book on it twice now in one week I can say it is a masterpiece that Linehan wrote. It's just now I know what it is about and I am thinking I can do it on my own without a therapist.
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