I don't actually know of any good external resources for defining "derail" in this context. I learned about the concept through work, and didn't want to just blatantly copy-and-paste that document into HN.
I did about five minutes of Google searching. Pointers would be appreciated.
Your comments border on bigotry. People don't want to engage with someone who has a closed mind.
Pretty much everything you've said about borderline PD is fucking nonsense. There's no point responding to someone who so clearly demonstrates they don't know what they're talking about. None of the stuff you've mentioned has any link to borderline personality disorder.
If you're going to use mental health diagnoses you should 1) use the right one and 2) probably just not.
In general when you find yourself saying stuff like "the Jews did it" or "Asians can't drive" or "black people can't swim" or "borderlines ..." You should probably not bother.
People with BPD experience significant stigma. Not just from the general population but from health professionals, including mental health professionals too.
But it's off topic. You're trying to make the conversation be about something else—I assume in a completely well-intentioned way, but this isn't the place for it.
> I'd really like to sincerely ask if you've had a run-in with it yet.
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Yes, I've met many people with borderline personality disorder.
I helped the English NHS create their KUF (Knowledge and Understanding Framework) for borderline personality disorder; I campaign for services to better meet the needs of people with BPD.
What you're saying is ignorant bollocks.
False accusations are not more common among people with BPD, and false accusations are rare.
We are way off the cliff of inappropriate conversations when we're:
* Attributing mental health conditions to hypothetical strangers
* Insinuating other commenters on HN have mental health conditions
* Impugning entire groups of people based on hypothetical mental health conditions.
That's before we reach the fact that the only reason we're talking about this particular mental health condition was the hypothetical that strangers, who we know nothing about, would be reporting sexual harassment incidents falsely because they might be suffering from that condition.
This is way past uncivil and inappropriate and we can't be having threads here that look like this, something I'm so sure of that I'll say so despite having no formal authority to do so.
You should feel free, where you're comfortable, to talk about your own struggles with mental health.
You should never be talking about someone else's. That's "taboo" for good reason. Threads where that happen invariably turn into insidious attacks not just on everyone purported to have whatever condition we're discussing, but, really, on everyone with mental health concerns of any sort.
I have no doubt you'll be able to generate 5 more paragraphs about how I've somehow missed some important aspect of what you're trying to say. Please, don't. I think Dan was right when he suggested you take a breath before continuing on this thread. Your posts are being flagged off the site for good reason.
Sorry, I assumed that a thread being detached for being off-topic meant that the off-topic discussion could continue. I'll stop if that's not the case and will take note accordingly. I'd appreciate a lift of the posting time limit too. I'll just play safe and avoid any sort of contentious posting going forward. Argument isn't the main reason I come to HN, after all.
