What is your take on Borderline Personality Disorder?

Question

I think it's a garbage can diagnosis personally. They should take it out of the DSM altogether. It causes so many problems in mental health centers because we are forced to work with these individuals who aren't technically mentally ill in anyway. They just have poor coping skills and low social functioning. There is nothing you can do to treat them or make them better. The system enables them in my opinion as borderline personality disorder is characterized in such a vague manner that anyone could be called borderline at some point in their life. They are such a burden and a waste of time. What do you think?

Answer 1

First, if you strictly follow the diagnostic criteria, it's not as simple as a pure garbage-can diagnosis. People with real BPD are truly suffering souls. Anyone can cut themselves and get a dx from somebody, but a good clinician will be able to distinguish authentic BPD

Borderline Personality Disorder literally means that the individual is on the borderline between neurosis and psychosis. It is more than a simple lack in coping mechanisms. Recent research has also shown a biochemical mechanism to the illness and some pharmacological methods of treating it have been proposed.

The fact that a condition is difficult and frustrating to treat does not mean that it is invalid and that the symptoms of those suffering ought to be discounted.

The best treatment to date is Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. This treatment offers coping mechanisms to those suffering from the disorder. It does not cure BPD, but DBT has helped many Borderline patients live a more productive life.

Answer 2

We need to keep it in. Just because we can't treat it today doesn't mean we won't learn how to do it tomorrow.

This sounds cruel but I'll say it anyway: People with Borderline Personality Disorder need to be tracked. Some folks with this become very dangerous. Right now, mental health agencies are the best way to go for that tracking.

And sometimes a person with Borderline Personality Disorder does learn to control what's happening and finds the ability to live a life without the violence, drama, and other things found with the illness. If one person an be saved, isn't that reason enough?

Answer 3

I think it is a true diagnosis but most people miss it and try to treat it as something it is not. A lot of people in prison have borderline Personality Disorder and they are put into differing groups but with no real intervention. I am not saying this causes the behaviour that got them into prison but it does excerbate the problem. For the most part people with this disorder cause havoc wherever they go in some form or another- some come to view that havoc as a manipulation tool and use it to their advantage some just bumble along never realizing THEY are the problem. It is a sad case really and not many people want to deal with it as a true problem.

Answer 4

I am fed up with people having this view.

My view is that this type of thinking can make those with BPD WORSE!!!!!!

Many are confused and desperate. I take it that you work in the mental health section and quite frankly you such be ashamed of yourself. Have you ever read any of the detailed notes these patients have. Many have been abused and neglected, society has failed them not visa- versa.

In a way i think that perhaps you yourself have traits of a PD as to ask such a question is surely going to provoke such a reaction. I wonder why you feel you need this attention?

I have been in wards where BPD patients have hanged theirselves and set theirselves on fire because they have been told they are not ill. Can you honestly think that anyone in the 'right' frame of mind would do this?

No neither do i

Perhaps you need to get a new job!!!!!!

Answer 5

get a moment opinion. Personality problems don't seem to be identified till after the age of 18 seeing that till then their persona continues to be forming and discipline to difference... a character ailment is a pervasive sample of perceiving and reacting to the arena that's enduring and longer term..... I feel it's the new trap all although for a few medical professionals. Was it a psychiatrist who identified her? She would have "rising" BPD, or she would have Oppositional defiance ailment, or Bipolar... But you're correct, technically, consistent with the diagnostic standards, she cannot have Borderline. Definitely get a moment opinion.... if she is Bipolar then the therapy may be very special.