Borderline personality disorder is one of those things we’re taught is fixed and life long. It also carries stigma. Meanwhile, it has a higher prevalence in younger women than in older women, so is it really so fixed and life-long? As with all aspects of mental health, I believe people can change. Borderline personality is often a maladaptive but understandable set of coping strategies that form in the context of chronic trauma in childhood or adolescence (that’s why there’s a push to rename this condition complex PTSD).
