abbreviations

[angeldust1]

Where do I find a list of abbreviations again.  When I click "Guidelines: Abbreviations it brings to a board where people are posting.  For example what does dh stand for.  Is this diagnosed husband?  And  Is a 'd' in front of any title mean diagonosed?

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[Rapt Reader]

Where do I find a list of abbreviations again.  When I click "Guidelines: Abbreviations it brings to a board where people are posting.  For example what does dh stand for.  Is this diagnosed husband?  And  Is a 'd' in front of any title mean diagonosed?

Hi, angeldust1     Here is a link to a thread with the title "What do all these abbreviations and terms mean?"  It has everything you need:

https://bpdfamily.com/message_board/index.php?topic=26601.0

The "d" before an acronym lots of times does mean "diagnosed" but sometimes people use it for "dear" as in: "dh"= dear husband... .  Sometimes context tells you the answer    "diagnosed BPD Husband" would most likely be "dBPDh" in some form or another. Hope this helps some   

[pessim-optimist]

yes, it is confusing.

I have noticed that people post especially for their husbands dh for 'dear husband', but technically according to the abbreviation tree it would mean 'diagnosed husband', so to avoid confusion, I either spell it out, or just write h.

Same goes for dd and ds - daughter and son, but here people more often say the d for diagnosed.