Borderline Personality Disorder?

Watch as I reframe it as autism.

Here we go!

Fear of Abandonment - when you're autistic you confuse social interaction easily. If you drive people away simply being your self you start to fear being yourself...

And the abandonment.

1/9 Unstable Relationships - when you don't understand your neurodivergence you think everyone thinks like you.

They don't.

This causes relationship instability, especially because you're autistic and don't know it. Shouldn't everyone love your special interest like you?

2/9

How to communicate with someone with BPD.

#BPD #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder

By a Borderline

(this term is really quite offensive and stigmatising, if you don't have this disease you're not allowed to use it at all in this context)

A short thread! I'll present a bunch of common thoughts from a lived experience, common responses and how you can respond instead to create better outcomes for everyone involved.

I love doing these.

My current understanding of COVID pathophysiology!

First, wtf is pathophysiology? Why that’s where
- pathology (disease process) &
- physiology (cellular biochemistry)
…collide!

A thread on why I haven’t stopped wearing an N-95 yet. I’m comprehending that the only way to communicate the importance of avoiding COVID one has to comprehend why.

COVID is airborne vasculitis. So what? Well that’s never happened before.

Why is it scary? Heart and blood vessel health is one of the main purposes of healthcare.

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy - The Tweet Thread

an interpretation by Dr. Safari Boob

DBT is a common approach to treatment of #BPD or #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder. (#EUPD #cPTSD)

It is commonly done in groups with guidance. Please seek medical help for excessive distress. 5 modules

Dialectics - The Forest
Mindfulness - The Sea
Distress Tolerance - The Storm
Emotion Regulation - Within
Interpersonal Effectiveness - Heart/Brain/Soul

Plans aren’t actions, repetition creates foundation (ie: you need to learn the alphabet before you learn to read)

I have broad understanding of what COVID does and my disease (BPD)+ ND helps me process things into easier to understand information.

I'll probably get things a bit wrong and annoy people but my approach is better safe than sorry.

A short layman thread on COVID pathophysiology. Catching COVID doesn't mean you can't catch it again. In fact, you're more likely be infected again.

If people claim otherwise I would ask their approach to unacceptable levels of global infection destroying our healthcare system.

New healthcare takes SO LONG to train.

Object Permanence

This symptom is one of the highest on the list for creating discord

If somone isn't in front of us reminding us they exist & love us, we quickly forget both

Scary when you have abandonment issues

On this, do I have friends here? I forget

#bpdawarenessmonth Seriously it's like I need to write a list of the people who care and respect for me and frequently refer to and update said list.

I can't talk about my industry publicly. I work(ed) in healthcare until resigning due to needing to protect the people I was endeavouring to help from COVID. I understand enough about human bodies combined with life span to know we shouldn't mess about with COVID. My partner asks, why aren't other medical professionals as upset as you are? Why aren't GPs upset like you? That's because the health industry has become capitalistic in nature. GPs don't fix things, they put the best bandaids they have on and move to the next person.

A thread on #BPD and #Pain (my special interest) from an expert in both.

We (BPD sufferers) have a paradoxical relationship with pain.

We are quite tolerant of acute pain, especially when it's self inflicted.

When it comes to chronic pain we are unusually intolerant 1/10 #BPD IS emotional dysregulation. We also have a paradoxical relationship with emotions, feeling extremes whilst simultaneously being unable to label the feeling.

This concept is unusual for anyone to comprehend, us only becoming aware ourselves when "woken" to our diagnosis 2/10

The Anatomy of a Borderline Personality Disorder #BPD Meltdown (and what you can try to help the person you love 💕)

A Shareable Thread 🪡🧵 1/15 The Trigger: you mostly won't understand why it's happened. 😕 Something happened though and the sick person has had a switch flicked. An electrical brain circuit has been catalysed and without the ability to emotionally regulate, the first domino topples. 2/15

This is outside of the box but I believe we aren't far from BPD being brought underneath the #ActuallyAutistic umbrella. Are you #autistic? You've all embraced #ADHD, it's now time to include #BPD siblings in that mix. We are stronger together.

#Neurodivergent Here's a link to my thread on meltdowns - this is really helpful information for those who don't understand why they have meltdowns and for carers/partners of sufferers who want to understand better 💖

https://twitter.com/Drsafariboob/status/1504951238630440960?t=EFQCWeKrT58yg2V9LxKthg&s=19

BPD - what is it? A handy guide:

Typically major symptom is emotional dysregulation - which means feeling emotions at 150%-200%. But paradoxically folk with BPD struggle to define the feeling they are feeling..

Also typical - complete lack of self worth. Worthlessness. But how? It's trauma. Chronic trauma (typically childhood) combined with parents either absent or ill equipped to support their child. Sexual abuse is common. This can lead to a child developing a heightened sense of parent's emotions to avoid negative consequences - becoming an "empath".