Yeah, you get us.

I blogged about pretty much this topic, a while ago:

http://rapunzel.psychcentral.net/200...l-we/#comments (Invalidating environments and the consequences of them).

Besides BPD and other personality disorders, there are many sequences of possible results. Children develop attachment disorders, and sometimes those develop into oppositional defiant and conduct disorders; or for other children, anxiety, depression, PTSD. ADHD fits in there somewhere too, and probably has a lot more environmental factors than most people recognize. Kids who are predisposed to have the potential for schizophrenia will be more likely to develop those symptoms. Pretty much any risk factors will be compounded and there will be less resilience.

And then those kids grow up, and the cycle continues across generations, because we do the best that we can, but we can only do what we know.