Guest guest Posted February 7, 2012 Report Share Posted February 7, 2012 Hi , would you mind sharing whether this twin is identical? Why do you feel she developed BPD and you have not? Do you feel a deep connection with her as a twin? If so it must be really awful that she has BPD and you must be NC with her. I'm just always trying to understand how this all works. I am haunted by the question of why my mother and aunt both of have personality disorders yet I truly don't think my grandmother did anything severe to them. I wonder how does this happen...why. (Charlie....hope this doesn't hijack your thread, I changed the title) Eliza > > Total bpd if it has that affect on you. But you have to go nc because you are most important (and your work). You will pull it back together because you have to and we've all learned to do whatever we have to. And you will be fine, and going nc. My own twin (who, like nada, is bpd) went nc on me over a year ago because of two things (complicated by her living 3000 miles away) and I thought I would be devasted but have made it (with a whole lot more money in my accounts too). Be strong > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 8, 2012 Report Share Posted February 8, 2012 Our understanding of the organic brain, genetics, environment, epigenetics, and how they all interrelate with each other to produce individual human beings, is really still just in its infancy. Below is a link to a study of twins RE how psychosis may affect one twin and not the other, due to epigenetics or gene expression. Epigenetics is the factor of whether a gene you inherited is turned on or turned off, which is apparently highly individual and can be affected by the environment or individual experiences. Gene expression is (apparently) so individual that even identical twins with identical genes who are raised together can still have differences due to whether a gene is turned on, to what degree it is " on " , or switched off in one twin but not the other. This factor ups the *complexity* of how and why individual differences occur, exponentially. Here's the link to the original study: http://hmg.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/09/09/hmg.ddr416.abstract And here's the link to the article about it by research psychiatrist Badcock, Ph.D.: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-imprinted-brain/201110/identical-differe\ nt And an excerpt: " In the previous post, I drew attention to two findings for which there is a rising tide of evidence. One is that, although identical twins may inherit identical genes, those genes may be differently expressed in each. The other is the growing realization that mental illnesses like autism or schizophrenia may be caused by such differences in gene expression: by epigenetics rather than simply genetics, so to speak. Now a new study by a team at the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College, London, has added considerable weight to both propositions by studying 22 sets of identical twins among whom only one of the pair suffered from schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. This was the first genome-wide analysis of epigenetic differences between identical twins discordant for a major psychosis and, as such, strikingly endorses the principal contention of the imprinted brain theory: namely, that such disorders are the result of variations in gene expression, and not simply a question of inheritance. " -Annie > > > > Total bpd if it has that affect on you. But you have to go nc because you are most important (and your work). You will pull it back together because you have to and we've all learned to do whatever we have to. And you will be fine, and going nc. My own twin (who, like nada, is bpd) went nc on me over a year ago because of two things (complicated by her living 3000 miles away) and I thought I would be devasted but have made it (with a whole lot more money in my accounts too). Be strong > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 9, 2012 Report Share Posted February 9, 2012 Thanks Annie, I'll definitely check out those links. Sometimes I get a little obsessed on the WHY....why is my nada like she is and my FOO. Epigenetics shows the incredible power of environment and nurture and shows even more why it's a crime for the mentally ill to raise children. eliza > > > > > > Total bpd if it has that affect on you. But you have to go nc because you are most important (and your work). You will pull it back together because you have to and we've all learned to do whatever we have to. And you will be fine, and going nc. My own twin (who, like nada, is bpd) went nc on me over a year ago because of two things (complicated by her living 3000 miles away) and I thought I would be devasted but have made it (with a whole lot more money in my accounts too). Be strong > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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