i did 2 years of group dbt and every single person i did this group dbt with has since realised they don’t actually have bpd. i’ve heard cases of someone having a meltdown the police called and she spoke on the phone for 10 mins to a doctor who slapped her with bpd!

Article by @awaisaftab 👏🏻👏🏻

Emotional regulation in ADHD-The DSM May Not List It, but the Brain Does 🚨 Top-down inhibition is a core role of the PFC👉the same region that drives the “cognitive” symptoms of ADHD. But an often-forgotten function of the PFC is impulse control and emotional regulation. Just because the DSM doesn’t list it doesn’t mean it doesn’t shape the disorder. Key tip 💡👉the Frontostriato-limbic circuits are connected - Just because the DSM / ICD split them - doesn’t mean clinicians should split. Always integrate ✅

Honestly think that the major message for the next generation of psychiatrists is that how neurodiversity is expressed, particularly in women and in restrictive contexts, is not “emotional instability” and is most definitely not “personality disorder”

I was dxd BPD within 10min of meeting the Dr who supervised the NP I was seeing for med mgmt. Every single thing I said was a direct result of being AuDHD and he said "classic BPD" and that was it. Took another 5 years to realize, but the harm to my self image had been done.