Savannah Wright’s Reviews > Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder > Status Update

This book spoke to so many of my inner conflicts with my profession with humanity and nuance. Trauma, diagnosis, abandonment ETC.

again - borderline is so misunderstood and this book addressed the importance of some of these topics while holding space for a future beyond the way we categorize & pathologize people.

Truly well done & thought provoking w/ excellent amounts of history intertwined w/ lived experiences.

it’s wild how new some of these things are and how unknown so much is.

borderline is SO misunderstood!!!!

the dsm lowkey SUCKSSSSSS - the pathologizing misunderstood nature of these categorizations.

not trauma informed and doesn’t like brain differences into account.

Freud and frenczi lowkey wreaked havoc on the lives women for the sake of their processes

Yikes

Women’s emotions weaponized + sexism

hard to reconcile the path paving with the terrible

BPD is so significantly misunderstood + I hate the stigma surrounding it. I have complex feelings about the diagnostic criteria (and diagnosis in general) and how it’s categorized - I’ve been having lots on conversations about bpd and the overlap of symptoms with complex trauma and the autistic experience as well. Enjoying looking at a bit of a historical perspective with it.