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Daisy I hope your day goes much better.

There are prescribed treatments for people with BPD. But you want to make sure you actually have it. Have you ever had an assessment?

Anyway there are several proven and hopeful therapies that work with bpd. One of them is called DBT. There are others as well. Traditional psychoanalytical therapy is not the treatment of choice for treating bpd.

Hi Mallard
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I guess that is the important thing about recovery. It's important to be able to define what happened to you, using your language and not someone else's. Not everyone wants to claim the abuse label. For me it felt therapeutic.


Yes that is a very wise statement. Very true. It is how it affected you more so than how bad it was compared to others etc. It was a huge relief for me to find out I was abused. I mean it was painful and I was scared for 2 months etc but in the long run it helped me to understand why I do things the way I do them. Why I duck whenever I am startled. Why I am startled so easily. Why I am triggered so easily as well. It just made things fall into place for me. It allowed me to finally have compassion for myself at a level I was unable to do prior to learning about the abuse.
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