Appreciate your response, melissa.recovering, and I get what you're saying but "personality disorder's" were origninally put on Axis II because they were believed to be pervasive and uncurable . .. in other words, none of us were expected to change or "get better".. . adapt perhaps, but never really change. Schizophrenia and dysthemia are also disorders that have been shown to be resistent and never really curable. . .in other words, disorders that will be with a person for the rest of their lives .. . in a sense, a life sentence; something the person will always deal with on some level. I guess I'm saying that I think things need a serious review. Sorry to disagree.

Or maybe I'm saying that if all the research is right, maybe BPD isn't a personality disorder but more along the line of the other Axis I disorders--i.e. Emotional Disregulation Disorder.