Is Borderline Personality Disorder a serious mental illness or is it a BS, catch basin diagnosis?
My response to your question is, both. Borderline Personality Disorder is often considered to be not maybe B.S. exactly, but certainly not a well-defined personality disorder. It can be thought of or seem like a catch-basin diagnosis. Borderline Personality Disorder is a serious and formidable mental illness however. Without a doubt the symptoms and pain that this disorder entails are very really as is the suffering that those diagnosed with it suffer. The most important thing about being diagnosed with BPD is that it does give you a better understanding of the types of issues that it will benefit you to deal with. That’s the real and only value in the label. BPD does describe the many challenges that those diagnosed with it do struggle with. The aspect of it that may well seem vague likely has a lot to do with the fact that the traits that define what BPD is (in the DSM-IV) are actually human traits. The reality is that those who are diagnosed with BPD experience and exibhit those tra
