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More than half of people with BPD have never had a suicide attempt—many don't need crisis-level care.
Short-term, generalist-delivered BPD treatment can produce meaningful change in a few months, not a few years.
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If you or someone you care about has borderline personality disorder (BPD), you've probably encountered misinformation about the condition that—let's be honest—freaked you out.
There was a time in the not-too-distant past when most mental health providers believed BPD was untreatable. Fortunately, clinical trials testing intensive, specialized treatments have disproved this myth (though you might still find people on the internet touting it).
Now the prevailing wisdom is that BPD is treatable, but it will likely take years—and that's only if you're lucky enough to find a specialist who is highly trained in one of the proven treatments for the condition.
Of course, for people with this diagnosis, learning that BPD responds to treatment is a vast improvement over hearing that it's a life sentence. At the same time, facing years of therapy may feel a bit daunting.
Here's the part that gets less airtime: That "years of........