I can relate to this. When I was in college, one of my psychology professors mentioned "The worst patients to deal with are borderlines...they are so unpredictable, one minute they are your friends, the next they are hitting you or cutting themselves." I have seen this stigma off and on for the past 17 years of my career in the mental health field...although I think it is changing somewhat. I know it has for me. I am a therapist *and* a patient with both BPD and bipolar disorder....and was just recently fired by my psychiatrist because I had a suicide attempt without calling him first. Apparently, I was "too high risk". But this worked out, because now I am seeing a BPD specialist...