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Originally Posted by SGT RJ
1) Borderline Personality Disorder (or any personality disorder) cannot be cured or fixed or really dealt with by medication.
Medications can help with the symptoms of BPD, such as the impulsivity, mood reactivity/lability, suicidality, and dissociations. Of course, therapy is also indicated and I would highly recommend a combo of therapy and meds if the therapy alone isn't enough and there needs to be some toning down of the intensity of the symptoms. Also, being on "a lot of meds" as in the OP seems to indicate the meds aren't doing anything in this particular case.
BPD is known to 'burn-out' so even without treatment it's expected to eventually get better.
My final note for this thread for now is that the diagnostic criteria listed for BPD was incomplete. In order to get the BPD diagnosis, you must also first meet the criteria for a personality disorder in general. Which means, to steal from the wiki page which steals from the DSM, there must be:
"An enduring pattern of psychological experience and behavior that differs prominently from cultural expectations, as shown in two or more of: cognition (i.e. perceiving and interpreting the self, other people or events); affect (i.e. the range, intensity, lability, and appropriateness of emotional response); interpersonal functioning; or impulse control.
The pattern must appear inflexible and pervasive across a wide range of situations, and lead to clinically significant distress or impairment in important areas of functioning.
The pattern must be stable and long-lasting, have started as early as at least adolescence or early adulthood.
The pattern must not be better accounted for as a manifestation of another mental disorder, or to the direct physiological effects of a substance (e.g. drug or medication) or a general medical condition (e.g. head trauma)."
It's important to realize that those other criteria must be evaluated in this context.