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Josh Clark

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Stuff You Should Know
Selects: BPD: The Worst Disorder or Not a Disorder at All?

And it does seem to have something to do with executive function in the brain.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: BPD: The Worst Disorder or Not a Disorder at All?

One of the big things that executive functioning does is it helps you control your emotions emotionally.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: BPD: The Worst Disorder or Not a Disorder at All?

not just in accepting things and dealing with them and moving on, but also your outward display of emotions.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: BPD: The Worst Disorder or Not a Disorder at All?

If you don't have executive function, your emotional dysregulation is more likely to include explosions of anger, uncontrollable anger.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: BPD: The Worst Disorder or Not a Disorder at All?

And then one of the things โ€“ it's not just BPD that has that.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: BPD: The Worst Disorder or Not a Disorder at All?

There's plenty of other โ€“

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: BPD: The Worst Disorder or Not a Disorder at All?

disorders that have it.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: BPD: The Worst Disorder or Not a Disorder at All?

But one of the key traits of BPD is it can last a really long time too.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: BPD: The Worst Disorder or Not a Disorder at All?

How about this, though?

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: BPD: The Worst Disorder or Not a Disorder at All?

On the back of the shirt, mork is coming out of the egg.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: BPD: The Worst Disorder or Not a Disorder at All?

Okay.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: BPD: The Worst Disorder or Not a Disorder at All?

All right?

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: BPD: The Worst Disorder or Not a Disorder at All?

To really confuse people.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: BPD: The Worst Disorder or Not a Disorder at All?

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.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: BPD: The Worst Disorder or Not a Disorder at All?

So regardless, it is very frequently diagnosed, more than you would think.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: BPD: The Worst Disorder or Not a Disorder at All?

It's one of the more common serious mental illnesses.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: BPD: The Worst Disorder or Not a Disorder at All?

Apparently, people receiving inpatient mental health treatment, one in five of those people are diagnosed with BPD.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: BPD: The Worst Disorder or Not a Disorder at All?

So it is very prevalent, at least inside the clink, the mental clink.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: BPD: The Worst Disorder or Not a Disorder at All?

Yeah, and that falls under the larger category of black and white thinking.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: BPD: The Worst Disorder or Not a Disorder at All?

It's not just applied to people.