@john2054,
I can imagine, from the diagnosis of my child that I too suffer from a borderline personality disorder, mild compared to you... It is because, as most people, I live in my emotions, and because my emotions often get the better of me that I try so hard to rationalize, be rational... In fact, in that effort I have found few people are rational, and most people are motivated by their emotions... I do not want to tell you that I did not often hurt from my mental issues which often hung between manic and depression... It is just that there is so much out there in the way of mental illness that people can be forgiven almost anything if they will do their jobs...But it cost me thousands, perhaps far over a hundred thousand in income and retirement... And I know some people are deeply offended if I call another insane or crazy... I have been around illness all of my life, and we presume of illness that it is some how deserved, and That is not true... I would rather make the worst comment about a condition beyond the control of the individual than the slightest comment on a condition that may be helped... The later implies a moral choice, and a defective one at that, while no one can help disease or dismemberment...
