by Dreams End » Tue Jul 04, 2006 7:15 pm
<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>This is exactly the kind of bullshit behaviour that someone needs to take responsibility for and stop.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>People with "bpd" (whatever value that diagnosis...bio and I were talking about how similar it seems to DID) but also DID respond to "triggers". Sometimes it can be something obvious...a stressful event. Sometimes something more subtle (with my wife, a sweatshirt sent from her mom that says "Mom loves me best." It could even be a smell or a taste...something that connects with a negative past experience.<br><br>When someone is triggered, especially before they've learned to recognize those triggers and start recognizing the pattern, a form of "programming" (with a small 'p'...not meaning by mc types at the moment) takes over. It's not conscious. <br><br>this doesn't mean the person's thinking process is flawed. It's often that emotions experienced under these circumstances are recognized as extreme later. But it is not something the person has control of....though they can learn to better control these reactions. <br><br>However, triggers are surprising...you never know what one might be. Some with my wife seem pretty obvious...if she doesn't know where her daughter is, for example. <br><br>Seriously, let's stop blaming the victims here. I mean literally now, not "abstractly." These patterns are well known and linked to abuse. They are not a matter of the person "deciding" to be this way. They are not a matter of lack of will, though it will take great will (but also support) to start changing these patterns.<br><br>"bpd" whatever it might ultimately mean as a diagnosis, is considered the hardest diagnosis to deal with...very limited success...though that is changing with therapies like Dialectical Behavioral therapy (which isn't nearly as intellectually oriented as it sounds.) Bio told me about that.<br><br>So let's keep focused on the causes of these disorders...in a vast majority of the cases, it is abuse and childhood trauma. And no matter one's philosophy (which I don't even want to get into again) about how it comes about, there are lots of things that are known about how they manifest in people and what are some effective ways of dealing with them. <br><br>Now, as for "breaking the cycle" with that former girlfriend...there's a REASON she's a former girlfriend. I didn't know nearly as much as I do now, but one can take the flying off the handle only so long. I wish I was still in touch...but you know, maybe she's found happiness and hasn't had to unearth much about her past. I lived with her for four years and I never new much about her past. The little bit I did now is very disturbing alongside what I know now. (By the way, has anyone ever heard much about the actor Glenn Ford? She was hooked up with him before I knew her and I never did get what that was about. I think she was sort of a consort...maybe even paid. She was always vague.)<br><br>So my refusal to be violent de-escalated things occasionally, sometimes it escalated them. In general, it didn't "fix her problems" and that would take much, much work. I'm hoping that maybe as you get older (she'd be about 50 now...somewhat older than I was) and if you survive in tact...even if you don't unearth the tough stuff maybe some of the effects lessen and you can enjoy a nice life. I hope so, anyway.<br><br>(LOOONG ago, in RI time, when I first started posting here I started a thread about weird phone calls. A couple of years ago I tried to locate this woman online. I tracked her to a city in Washington State. I actually dropped some cash to do it with one of those online database services. A very short while I get a call that goes like this (obviously, they used my real first name)<br><br>"Is this Dream's End?"<br><br>"Yes."<br><br>"Hey Dream...how ya feeeeelin'?" <br><br>Hysterical laughter and then he hung up. I received two more calls from the same number in the next couple of days. One of them was a very long nonresponse. I even heard tv in the background. No voice.<br><br>Finally a fourth call and I answer angrily.<br><br>"This is your credit card company with some info on your account."<br><br>the numbers matched...and it was all from the same area code that I'd tracked my ex to. But there's NO way she could have known I was doing this through ordinary means.<br><br>I told the woman what was going on and she put me on with a supervisor. It was legit. I canceled my card and got a promise that they'd investigate, but I never heard anything else.<br><br>Was it a coincidence purely? A coincidence that maybe she was thinking of me at the same time and had a friend at this major credit card company? Something more sinister?<br><br>I don't know. )<br><br>Anyway, I hope I didn't make things worse for her, but I doubt I made them much better. <br><br>Finally:<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Also with memory, its not just stored in the brain, but in the body too. Muscles store memory and can be trained using this process. Muscles store memory differently, similar to storing tension, there is probably a link between these two.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Most definitely. Often memories surface that are ONLY physical. A pain or sensation that is unexplained. And often with DID anyway there are many somatic complaints. They aren't "psychosomatic" in the sense that I was able to see evidence, such as my wife's swollen joint during flareups of what was being called "rheumatoid arthritis", but they were clearly triggered by emotional stress.<br><br>And the headaches have been very tough as well.<br><br> <p></p><i></i>