Why Do Mental Health Professionals Avoid Diagnosing Borderline Personality Disorder?
Mental health providers can be reluctant to diagnose BPD and other personality disorders due to diagnosis criteria, insurance, and stigma.
How to navigate dating when you have borderline personality disorder (BPD)
BPD is one of the most stigmatized mental health disorders. As a result, some believe those with the disorder are unworthy of being loved. The emotional instability of those with BPD creates a vicious cycle whereby actions to cope with the burden of stigma exacerbate the condition
TikTok star and singer Nessa Barrett says she opened up about borderline personality disorder so people ‘know that it’s normal’
TikTok star and singer Nessa Barrett says she opened up about borderline personality disorder so people ‘know that it’s normal’
We Are Still Fighting the Stigma of Borderline Personality Disorder
TW: Discussion of suicide and self-harm “When I was diagnosed with BPD in 1990, I was 29. The psychiatrists at the hospital where I’d been admitted following my second suicide attempt told my parents the prognosis was poor and not to hope too much. I could...
