LOL I think I'm at both ends of this argument. I needed the label to identify with all of you, and find all of you, so I could learn about myself. However, I feel that people read a page a chapter or a blurb on BPD, and think they know everything about it. Sigh...just ludicrous. I was labeled BPD from a test, my therapist didn't know me yet...but I can imagine that therapists do give out the label or can give out the label when they feel they aren't helping someone, and are frustrated. That, or tell you you're fine, because they want a way out of not working with you, because they can't help you, and don't want you to show up the next day and shoot them. Tee hee hee. The label has scared one or two therapists I've worked with, but it was only because they weren't knowledgeable about the disease. I went to a 'retreat' where we were to write about the things we thought about that day, and turn them in. Well, being borderline, I had an opinion. The therapist read my 'private' note to the group, and told me I was vicious, and borderline. I almost laughed at her, because, one, I knew I was smarter than her, two I know she had no clue how to deal with me, because I told them I was borderline before I got there, and three I told her I was capable of way worse. She just got a negative opinion from me that day, not one of my verbal lashings...she also told me I shouldn't tell anyone I''m borderline, because it's the worst diagnosis out there, and that I wasn't presenting as a borderline. LOL Why? Because I didn't stab you? We weren't allowed and sharp objects. LOL I'm kidding...but she clearly didn't know how to handle me, and I knew it....She is a very successful therapist, but I think she is a huge joke!!