Bellman’s Syndrome – BPD and Chronic Pain
A link between chronic pain and BPD/PTSD:
Over the years in treating BPD or PTSD I have observed a syndrome that my fellow clinicians now refer to as the “”Bellman Syndrome”” a title I modestly [accepted]. It is simply stated thus; chronic pain and medication addiction are directly associated with BPD or PTSD in a complex interaction.