Even my own NP fears that my diagnosis will cause me to be receive poor treatment due to the medical profession's stigmatization. The biggest one being that meds do not help us. I really do not agree with that, but it is something that some health professionals feel.

I realize it is probably really frustrating to treat us, because medication is only useful to a degree as it relieves symptoms of depression/rage/anxiety but cannot stop severe triggering (its like grief, no pill can fix that, only make it more tolerable - our emotions are strong), and so many Pdocs probably have a 'you're BPD I can't help you attitude'. I am really glad my NP does not, we do all kinds of fun testing of pharmacotherapy, and I can tell you they all do different stuff :P The idea that they don't do anything is ridiculous.

The work Perry Hoffman and John Gunderson (and others in conjunction with NEA-BPD) do gives me hope that more professionals will open their eyes instead of just run from a Borderline.