Chuck Bryant

Those with bipolar may have a hair trigger kind of response during an episode, whereas when you have borderline PD, you have a hair trigger response all of the time.

And I can't imagine how tough that must be.

Yeah, there was another and we'll talk about her in great detail.

Her name is Marsha Linhan.

Or is it Linehan?

Yeah, she, as we'll see, is someone who not only suffered from BPD but kind of pioneered the treatment of BPD.

But she said it's like having third-degree burns on 90% of your body metaphorically.

So you're lacking emotional skin and you feel agony at the slightest touch or movement.

And since you did mention self-harm, non-suicidal self-harm, it also, people with BPD have a suicide rate of, was it like 50 times higher than average in the population?

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

So this is no joke.

This is a very hardcore disorder that bears more empathy and understanding.

Not at all.

Frustratingly so.

Yeah, he was a psychoanalyst and he basically, I mean, if you didn't know what it was, and I didn't even fully know what it was, I always wondered what borderline meant.

And it very simply meant and means, this is Stern saying, you're not quite on the psychotic level and you're not quite psychoneurotic.

You're basically on the border between those conditions while encompassing a bit of each.

So we're just going to call it borderline.

Okay, so he was a psychoanalyst in the mid-1970s.