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Many months ago the psychiatrist I'm seeing suggested a site to me -- http://www.mjtacc.com/frameset2.html?drecovered.html~mainFrame -- which is about Borderline Personality Disorder, a seemingly catch-all phrase for personal dysfunction.I looked at the site and readily identified with much of what I read there. It didn't help me cope, but provided a name for whatever it is I am going through: BPD! Woo-hoo, I'm a BPD!Perhaps some others here can identify with what's written there, but so what? Classification is pretty useless as a remedy. That's not to deny the truth of what any of us have suffered/are suffering. Might as well call it Mojave Desert Complex (MDC).Doctor/therapist: "From my analysis of your 'condition', I have ascertained that you have MDC. I prescribe migration to a more verdant environment."Patient/you/me: "Gee, thanks, Doc!"Later that night, in the pub with friends or total strangers, depending on your social IQ: "Say, (insert preferred gender sobriquet here), do you know I have MDC?"As the late, great Kurt Vonnegut put it: And so it goes.Which is all by way of saying, how easily are we swayed by what we are told by so-called experts? (Disclosure: I seem to be easily swayed, more so if the "diagnosis", formal or informal -- mine was the latter, I think -- offers something in the way of giving me hope that I'm not tainted with that stain forever more.)BPD or MDC, it doesn't really matter in the long run. I feel combative, but how do I fight if the "enemy" is within? Enigmas abound.Maybe someone can write a song about that sometime.Cheers, from a slightly inebriated Detlef