BPD is the most commonly diagnosed personality disorder. Recently there has been some examination of the experience of those diagnosed with BPD. People diagnosed with BPD have reported feeling that they were living with a pejorative label and were perceived as manipulative, and having limited access to care because of this. According to the participants in one study , health care providers held preconceived and unfavourable opinions of people with BPD, and sufferers referred to their experience as having been labelled rather than diagnosed. Some service users have spoken about being terrified of disapproval or rejection from professionals such and some admitted to withholding information to defend against this. This sense of being judged negatively only serves to alienate the individual from the very people providing the support and care that can promote recovery. It is in fact often simply a repetition of the experiences the sufferer has had in earlier life and further enforces the negative and self-destructive patterns of behaviour making recovery all the less likely.
I don’t know what your experience has been but mine has been very mixed. I have had the pleasure of working with both doctors and nurses that I couldn’t praise highly enough but I have also been the victim of bullying by professionals and also been dismissed as an attention seeking time waster.
borderline personality disorder 