Josh Clark

I wanted to end with that big one.

Okay.

All right.

Speak to it.

Well, there's a lot of – I always hate saying those qualifiers.

It's just so easy to say.

I know.

But I think it perks people's ears up like, oh, this person doesn't know what they're talking about.

So let me rephrase that.

I have seen that there are schools of thought regarding borderline personality disorder that it is a rage response to trauma.

That is your response to unresolved trauma.

That's how you learn to deal with those feelings and those emotions is to rage at people.

Because rage is as much a hallmark of BPD as fear of abandonment is.

And that's why some people are critical of including it as a categorical diagnosis in the DSM-5.

They're saying you're pathologizing rage.

No, you just need to teach people.

How to identify their emotions and how to express them in a more appropriate, less hostile manner.

And that's how you would treat somebody with BPD or not even with BPD, somebody with a rage disorder.

But some people think that that is what people are mistaking for BPD.

Again, I think it's the stigma, and then also it might be distracting from treating the other underlying stuff.