No offense, I feel irritated when people w/o BPD minimize BPD. It's like telling some with depression they're not suffering from depression. Or someone with PTSD that they have symptoms that all people who have suffered aome sort of trauma have.

I admit there's a lot of stigmatism, misunderstanding, and misdiagnosing of BPD. But even comments here are stigmatizing BPD.

BPD is caused by genetics and environment. One is born with an emotional sensitivity. That coupled with childhood trauma causes one to be emotionally delayed. That's the basics of BPD. The symptoms overlap with other disorders, and often mimic teenage behavior. It does improve by simply living your life. Managing co-disorders with medication and seeking therapy only aids in emotional development.

So when someone has borderline "traits", it means you're growing emotionally out of some of the traits. Almost all people with BPD graduate to traits.

Just please take into consideration that when you minimize the diagnosis of BPD, you're also minimizing people who suffer from it.