Josh Clark
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And it does seem to have something to do with executive function in the brain.
One of the big things that executive functioning does is it helps you control your emotions emotionally.
not just in accepting things and dealing with them and moving on, but also your outward display of emotions.
If you don't have executive function, your emotional dysregulation is more likely to include explosions of anger, uncontrollable anger.
And then one of the things โ it's not just BPD that has that.
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disorders that have it.
But one of the key traits of BPD is it can last a really long time too.
How about this, though?
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All right?
To really confuse people.
I also saw that it's a that's an indictment of clinicians who basically have to figure out for themselves whether the person has BPD and that they're more likely to assign it to a woman than a man, a male patient.
So regardless, it is very frequently diagnosed, more than you would think.
It's one of the more common serious mental illnesses.
Apparently, people receiving inpatient mental health treatment, one in five of those people are diagnosed with BPD.
So it is very prevalent, at least inside the clink, the mental clink.
Yeah, and that falls under the larger category of black and white thinking.
It's not just applied to people.