If there’s not a word for this in English, there should be. It’s definition would read:

“n: A short period of time during which a number of small, unusual, random events occur; all inexplicably linked together by a common theme.“

When this happens, the only conclusion you can usually draw is that someone, somewhere REALLY wants you to pay attention to this thing, whatever it is, right now.

This week the common theme was Borderline Personality Disorder.

I’ve blogged about it before. There was a long piece about it in the local newspaper magazine this weekend.  Pretty standard fare about the disorder, some nice personal histories.

The thing that got me, though, was the last few paragraphs: Treatment.

Apparently the standard fare of medication is, more often than not, ineffectual. Promising results though, have apparently been found with Dialectic Behavioural Therapy, and to a lesser extend Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.

Short-cutting the discussion linking BPD to trauma and/or some type of hereditary predisposition to “emotional rawness” here, I’ll jump right to the “well, duh!” moment.

Medication? Usually innefective.

Meditation, mindfulness, learning to reframe experiences as positive? Much more effective.

Kind of what we do with our Martial Art Therapy program.  And pretty much common sense to me.

But more to the point, why on earth isn’t this emotional regulation, mindfulness and much, much more “reslilience” taught as a core subject in our schools?