Recovery for BPD Doesn’t Have to Take Years
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 therapy” assumption is more a relic of how BPD research got started than a hard rule about what every person with the diagnosis actually needs. Why Many …
