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Most people refer to remission as no longer qualifying for a BPD diagnosis.
I prefer the term functional recovery. I take it to mean someone who is continuously maintaining their wellbeing in multiple aspects (physical, mental, etc), functioning in multiple aspects of their life (relationships, interests, navigating challenges etc), feel life is worth living, and no longer exhibiting destructive “BPD behaviors” as much as they are exhibiting new, more effective ways of living.
Contributions from the phenomenologists are greatly appreciated.
En el trastorno límite de la personalidad y desde un análisis fenomenológico, hay cuatro tipos de inestabilidades:
Identidad.
Afectividad.
Relaciones interpersonales.
Vivencia corporal.
(Schmidt 2020) en cambridge.org/core/books/abs…
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'The skies they were ashen and sober;
The leaves they were crispéd and sere—
The leaves they were withering and sere;
It was night in the lonesome October
Of my most immemorial year;
It was hard by the dim lake of Auber,
In the misty mid region of Weir—
It was down by the dank tarn of Auber,
In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.'
Edgar Allan Poe, 'To -- -- --, Ulalume: A Ballad'
poetryfoundation.org/poems/4…
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One notable thing to me about the BPD discourse I’ve been seeing here over the last couple of days, vast majority of it from non-clinicians, there is just no tiptoeing around BPD as a diagnosis, no the-diagnosis-that-must-not-be-named vibes; it is refreshing in its own way, a collective step away from toxic denial that has often characterized activism around this. I don’t know what the future holds for BPD as a diagnosis; quite possibly the terminology will look different in 2 decades, but the experiential and behavioral patterns that are indexed by BPD need clear-eyed recognition, and that need will not change.
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"A visual tribute inspired by the Day of the Dead, a Mexican tradition that celebrates life, honors those who have departed, and keeps alive the love that unites us to them."
🎵 La Llorona — Chavela Vargas
#DayOfTheDead 💀
"Emotional lability - instability of emotional experiences and mood; emotions that are easily aroused, intense, and / or out of proportion to events and circumstances."
Understanding the PID - 5 p. 2.
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A Q&A with Austin Ratner from The American Psychoanalyst (@T_A_Pmag )
Psychoanalysis at the Margins
Awais Aftab of “Psychiatry at the Margins” on Freud, science, and the hope for psychoanalysis
tapmagazine.org/all-articles…
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In my latest “Therapeutic Window” piece for the @nytimes, I discuss our current scientific understanding of how antidepressants work
(Gift link but NYT requires an email sign up to read for free)
nytimes.com/2026/10/27/scien…
“Negative affect - frequent and intense experiences of high levels of a wide range of negative emotions (ex. anxiety, depression, guilt/shame, worry, anger) and their behavioral (ex. self-harm) and interpersonal manifestations.”
Understanding the PID - 5
p. 2
“41 if you include the fact that we don’t care.”
‘Boots or Hearts’ featuring Owen Riegling out now! Owen was a special guest on the new cast album, and he really made it his own.
Check it out: linktr.ee/thehip
Answer from Grok:
“Kierkegaard would not dismiss either thinker (Bion and Lacan) out of hand, but he would press the same question he presses against the poet: does this framework ultimately serve the existing individual who must choose and become, or does it offer a sophisticated, endlessly interesting way of remaining in reflection, openness, or structural lack? Where Bion and Lacan stay at the level of psychic process, theoretical elegance, or cultivated tolerance of the unknown, the criticism lands.
Where their work forces a change in how a person actually lives and decides, it begins to move beyond the purely aesthetic.”
Answer from Chat GPT:
“Bion asks how the unbearable can be received and transformed so that thought and meaning become possible.
Kierkegaard asks how the individual can sustain faith when the paradox cannot be reconciled through universal reason.
Lacan asks how a subject achieves consistency despite an irreducible impasse in the structure of experience.
These are not identical problems, but they converge around a question:
What sustains psychic life when understanding cannot provide a complete solution?
For Bion, faith sustains the capacity to think.
For Kierkegaard, faith sustains Abraham's relation to the absolute.
For Lacan, the sinthome can sustain the subject where symbolic resolution fails.
The sinthome shifts the emphasis from discovering the meaning of an experience to finding a singular way to live with what cannot be fully made meaningful.”
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“Snowbird" is featured in Netfilx's new hit series ‘Below', and people are Shazamming like crazy to find out who sings this gem!
Give Snowbird a listen today! annemurray.komi.io/
@Shazam @netflix
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My concern is how unreflectively "pro-meaning" (post-behaviourist) psychology has become. (Not to be a behaviourist...) But: i) "meaning" itself has different meanings, ii) more needn't mean better, iii) some "meaning" talk is simply gibberish. i) Word meaning (semantic meaning),
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Keith Jarrett’s solo performance of “Over the Rainbow” in Tokyo in 1984 is widely regarded as one of the most outstanding and moving piano solo covers of all time. Rather than simply restating the familiar melody, the legendary pianist infused the piece with new life through his brilliant improvisation, refined harmonic structure, and profound emotional depth.
