A reminder that the “Borderline” in Borderline Personality Disorder does not mean someone barely has a personality disorder or that they’re almost neurotypical. The name “Borderline Personality Disorder” comes from the fact that the initial doctor to study it said suffers live on the border between psychosis (disconnection from reality) and neurosis (having anxiety, depression, or obsessive tendencies, etc that don’t quite cause disconnection from reality).
A follow up reminder that people with BPD are not “manipulative because they just want to be the center of attention”, they are often in a lot of distress that they don’t have the skills to handle and are often desperate to prove they’re worthwhile or prevent a potential abandonment.
Additional reminder there are some professionals who think it should be recategorized from a personality disorder to a type of PTSD, because tbh it is really really similar on a lot of levels.
