Quotation about PDs being a deficit in something?

[Wilderhearts]

I heard somewhere once that BPD is a deficit in love, OCPD is a deficit in control, and so on.  Does anyone know where this quotation came from?  I find it very helpful in understanding PDs (the disorders themselves).

Of course if someone has a deficit in love and is not able to experience love, they will develop maladaptive behaviours to constantly experience substitutes for love, e.g., presence and attention and reassurance from others. 

It's probably the most helpful explanation that I've found for understanding how pwPD's disorders function as a whole system, but I can't dig it up anywhere.

[blunk]

I have not heard that quotation, but it does seem to make a lot of sense. The one that really hit home for me was finding out that my bpdxh had been diagnosed before BPD was the common term. It was previously referred to as EDD - Emotional Dysregulation Disorder. And that described perfectly the way he reacted.

[clara]

I've read that PDs can be considered "fractured personalities," never having received (in childhood) whatever provides the non-PD with a cohesive "core" that binds all of our personality traits into a functioning whole.  So yeah, I can see it being termed a deficit--the deficit being the missing ingredient for a healthy personality.  I would like to find the whole quote, because it seems a simple but effective way of describing a very complicated disorder.

And there are other opinions that believe too much of one ingredient, dispensed in a dysfunctional manner, can also help create a PD.  This would explain why some people, from seemingly functional families, still develop a PD.  Without close examination, the root cause remains hidden.

[Jolie40]

I found this about PDs

A study conducted by Agrawal, Gunderson, Holmes, and Lyons-Ruth (2004), who reviewed 13 empirical studies to investigate the types of attachments borderline personality disorder sufferers had. They found a high percentage of highly insecure attachments among the borderline personality disorder suffering participants.