Is there any research on recording pw BPD dysregulation & therapeutic results?

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[desperate dutchman]

 Just curious has any study or research videotaped or recorded the pwBPD while they dysregulate? Then played it back to them for their education related to their behavior?
I see on the seperating board that they document everything but I was wonderIng if there is a therapeutic  value?

[livednlearned]

Interesting question, desperate.

My T suggested I record my N/BPDx while he was intoxicated (early in the process, back when I thought it must be the alcohol, or maybe the adderall, or maybe the bipolar genes...). She often had couples do that because the shock of a drunk spouse seeing what s/he was really like could shake them up and some became motivated to change. N/BPDx said hell no, btw. No recording.

But for dysregulation, is the assumption that pwBPD aren't aware of their behavior? I'm convinced my X knew exactly what he was doing, and had lived so long getting away with his controlling and manipulative behavior that it had proved to be a perfectly successful mechanism for getting what he wanted. What would he really learn from watching himself dysregulate? That he looked intimidating and said irrational things? I think he would find the recording to be an accurate portrayal of his effective tactics.

[maria1]

Mine saw an email he'd sent me as he became more dysregulated. He was moving in and out of devaluing me and he saw the email. He seemed genuinely shocked, saying he couldn't believe it was so cold. At the time he seemed to be breaking down and aware of his behaviours. I don't know what could have been done if I'd tried to use it as an opening to discuss some of his damaging behaviours.

The last time I saw him he just looked desperately sad and kept trying to deny that anything he was doing in lying to my replacement about our relationship was wrong. I'd said it made me feel sick and that seemed to stay with him. I don't know how he's dealing with that now as I'm NC but I imagine I'm mainly black now. On this site there seems to be an overall assumption that there is no insight but I think my ex had some. I know he had some.

Maybe an experiment like that would depend on the person and their own version of bpd?

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