I do believe it's essentially true.

And I wish someone would write the book about the middle aged person who looking back realizes that they had the symptoms that are called BPD.

It is one thing to be diagnosed young and in the throes of the most harmful and self-injurious behaviors, and something else to have stumbled and scraped through life to find yourself middle-aged and empty and in pain.

I think part of the 'getting here' to middle-age includes learning avoidance and isolation as coping methods or defenses. So it makes it a different ball game. I feel like it's the 9th inning, I'm on 3rd base, there are 2 outs, and the count is 0 and 2....