Borderline Personality Disorder is the Medical diagnosis for “highly sensitive people.”

I hate the labeling our culture does, but we have to call it something so we can communicate. How ’bout we take the highly sensitive people label and borderline personality disorder label, and re-label this observation as a Gift of God.

Then lets consider the varying approaches to caring for whatever this human is.

First, lets look at the tender loving Medical care for our most sensitive people.  They try to talk some sense into them with psychotherapy, (J/K, I like my therapist) and send them home with a prescription.

1. Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitors: SSRI’s or antidepressants are usually well-tolerated; chance of a lethal overdose is minimal. However, “SSRIs are only marginally effective for depression and anxiety in patients with borderline personality disorder.”
2. Mood Stabilizer: Iamotrigine slows down hyperactivity of brain tissue.  One tiny side effect, it inhibits MTHFR gene function, which destroys developing babies, and slowly deteriorates your health.
3. Benzodiazipines: Ativan and Valium are highly addictive, and they really do nothing more than alcohol.  You just skip the singing and “I love you man” phase, and go right to pass out.  CNN says, “The potential danger of benzodiazepines is no secret: They were involved in about 30% of prescription drug overdose deaths in 2013,“
4. Second Generation Antipsychotics: Abilify blocks the production of dopamine in your brain.  When dopamine is released you feel love and gratitude.  But when your Love is challenged or threatened, Dopamine amplifies the protection part of Love which looks like a Momma Bear!

They could stop challenging or threatening Love, a Gift of God, but instead they prescribe Abilify.  It knocks out a Momma Bear, so they can take what they want without Momma getting out of control.

This isn’t sounding right to me!  That’s not how I would care for our most sensitive, at all!!!

Send your “psychotics” or “borderliners” to True Health.  Here is my approach:

Step 1: I’d hold them until they feel safe.  That doesn’t mean nursing them, silly, it means making safe space.  I invite people more often if it’s too intense out there.  Eventually, you will be able to stay at the Farm for as long as you need.

Step 2: I’d apologize for how hurtful this world feels and share my experience of being highly sensitive in a hard world, at least the most hilarious parts, until they feel comfort and ease. 

Step 3:  I’d teach the virtue of sensitivity and how our world needs us to be strong. Then I would explain how God so thoroughly disrupted my life, to put this mission in my hands.

Step 4: I give them the healing and strength of my hands which are extensions of a soft heart, and send them home with Bupleurum Formula.  That is my best version of Yi-Gan-San, which came to be over 500 years ago, in the soft tradition of natural medicine in China, for the treatment of sensitive, agitated children.  And double blind tested to significantly relieve the symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder, Treatment Resistant Schizophrenia, and Bipolar Disorder.

It was their best care for their most sensitive children, and it’s been passed along for its effectiveness for 500 years.  In 2008, they scientifically validated Yi-Gan-San with a double blind study, the highest form of scientific validation, according to Medicine.

After 12 weeks, the doctors concluded that there was a “highly significant improvement in anxiety, tension, depressive mood, hostility, suspiciousness, motor retardation, uncooperativeness, and manic episodes.”

Lol.  I love medical terminology, not for it’s value, but for its humor.  They call a genetic vulnerability a MTHFR, and “not showing the will / movement to live or thrive,” = motor retardation.

True Health’s 4 steps vs the American Medical Association’s 4 steps!?

I’d love to hear your vote.  Which would you prefer?!?