Borderline Personality Bedtime Thoughts

I was thinking about borderline personality diagnosis and its subset, those with borderline personality traits. In the first place its not a nice thing to say about anyone. It implies a deficit, something that will limit your success in life when its become recently clearly apparent that you can even rise to President of the United States. On the other hand it doesn’t seem so bad not having a whole personality because its fairly obvious that you have to be dysfunctional in significant ways to be really functional –nevertheless its somewhat distressing to have only traits of the whole complete borderline personality, not enough for full membership, to be only half of a half. As far as that goes I don’t know why borderline personality isn’t considered a whole personality anyway since you have to fully meet all the conditions and requirements to qualify for that borderline status just as any for other.

Then I thought 'why does the whole get to call the half a half,' I mean a half has to be a whole half to qualify as a half and for that matter why can’t the half call the whole an excessive personality disorder. God knows there’s a surplus of them around but no, its always the under privileged that get the short straw. Those who are more tentative about their sense of entitlement get the scarlet diagnosis of passive aggressive while those barracuda bullies whose aggressive assertiveness intimidates the entire playground escape derogatory labels, mostly because those are the ones that end up running the show and handing labels out. Take astronauts who climb into a vehicle the size of a Volkswagen bus and go the moon because they were told, “its all been worked out on paper.” If that’s not risk behavior or impaired judgment I don’t know what is but they’ll get medals and respect.

Anyway the more I thought about it I couldn’t see why, that being the case, that borderline personalities should have to pay the same price for a loaf of bread as someone with a whole personality, who came with batteries included, who contains the complete resources and ingredients necessary for securing the price of the bread. No, the person without the whole personality should pay only half the price and someone with only traits of a half should pay only traits of a half price. We have to stop giving the advantages to those already advantaged. Its like that thing I was always told about ‘the hero dies only once but a coward dies a thousand times.’ Why does the hero get the red badge of courage. No, it should go to the coward because having to die 1000 times is obviously 1000 times more heroic that dying once.

No--the borderline label should go to the true borderline people, those who are running the show.