Can Borderline Personality Disorder be outgrown, say by age 39???

Answer 1

I'm quoting directly from DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders):
"...Although the tendency toward intense emotions, impulsitivity, and intensity in relationships is often lifelong, individuals who engage in therapeutic intervention often show improvement beginning sometime during the first year. During their 30's and 40's, the majority of individuals with this disorder attain greater stability in their relationships and vocational functioning. Follow up studies of individuals identified through outpatient mental health clinics indicate that after about 10 years, as many as half of the individuals no longer have a pattern of behavior that meets full criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder...

Answer 2

Being a retired mental health professional myself, and having worked with a variety of peronality disorders, including Borderline, I'd first have to ask how old is the person you're referring to now. If the person is 38 right now, then my answer would be, "Are you kidding??!!! No way!!!" But if you are talking about someone younger, like say, 30, well I'd say you've got a chance. And if you're under 30, say 25 to 30 then I'd say you have a good chance, if time is the only factor you're considering. Personality Disorders are slow to change, and often will not change if the individual diagnosed with such is not in ongoing psychotherapy for years by a very competent individual. I would be very much against the use of psychiatric medications unless in a dire emergency, and I'm very strict on how I define "dire" and other such "emergency" or "crisis" terms. I would recommend the continuous use of one counselor, a competent one of course. I'd love to work with whomever you're referring to, but I love being retired even more. I do wish whomever you're talking about God's Blessings.

Answer 3

Are you asking this because you know someone with borderline personality disorder, or because someone like a medical professional has told you that you have it?

Unfortunately, in most cases, personality disorders are some of the most difficult aspects of mental care that can be treated. There is a very poor remission rate and usually the personality disorder will remain for the majority of a person's life. It can only specifically be controlled if the person realizes what they have is a disorder (MOST of the time they do not).

Answer 4

I've never heard of any personality being "outgrown"....if anything, most psychological disorders tend to get worse from what I've studied. You may not go over the edge, per se, but symptoms don't normally improve or go away. Its a disease, like diabetes or high blood pressure, that should be addressed and dealt with professionally.

For more info. on borderline personality, check out Wikipedia:

Answer 5

imo, preserve your baby. he's a minor and may't preserve himself. Your better half needs specialist help (which I take it he's getting b/c he develop into clinically determined and has tried suicide). you choose to positioned your skill into being the mum or dad and protector of your baby. I educate regret if I come for the time of as harsh. I have dealt with a boarderline at artwork for 9 years. The time period boarderline is used through the undeniable fact that is an emotional intensity ailment in which the guy is going (boarders between, hence the time period boarderline) between psychotic and neurotic. The aren't any further categorised as pschotic because they don't stay that way each and each and every of the time. have a glance at your better half's previous and modern. Do you locate he both hates or loves the guy (and may turn between both) and there is not any center floor? Do you locate that for the period of their existence they have left a path of destruction of their wake (no longer merely finished scale mood blowups and personality assasination with suggestions out of your better half), with peoples lives, or a minimum of their relationships leveled to the floor? Do you locate that in the adventure that they are disillusioned with someone, it isn't uncomplicated, yet livid--and they somewhat choose to verify terrible (and that i'm speaking actually--terrible) issues happen to the guy they're disillusioned with? Do you locate that below all of it your better half fears abandonment? If sure, it is a boarderline. PLEASE communicate TO A THERAPIST about a BOARDRLINE AND even if or not they're many times HELPED. imo and therapists I have spoken to the answer is not any. remedies (the large majority of the time) do not artwork. Please do not take my be conscious for it, ask for your self. i'm jaded. My existence professionally and for my area develop into DESTROYED with suggestions from the boarderline I labored with. Boarderlines also are striking liars, because they truly trust they're properly and what they say is ideal. someone instructed me once that when you're in a room with a boarderline, their intensity ailment is such that it ought to experience like each and each and every of the air is sucked out of the room. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, take care of your self AND your relatives. the quicker YOU do this the better. G-d bless you and sturdy success.

Answer 6

No. The only way to deal with BPD is with professional therapy and it can be done on a one-to-one therapy with a Psychiatrist or Psychologist and group therapy. I know this because I used to have BPD, but with the proper professional help I no longer display the symptoms.

Answer 7

borderline never goes away and you dont out grow it, the older you get the better you get at coping with and learning how to live with it. there is no cure for it. take it from a 33yr old with it you dont outgrow it.

Answer 8

it is possible to outgrow anything ppl outgrow asthma, adhd etc so i would say yes with the right treatments and counceling, you can later in life be diagnosed as well in the last 2 years i was diagnosed with ADHD and mania-psycosis

Answer 9

hmm, maybe your werent borderline... maybe you were a km past the line!

Answer 10

Why out grow it? I've been perfectly happy with mine.