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ECHOES said:
what's wrong with borderline?

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<font color="blue"> It is commonly known within the fields of mental health, that person's diagnosed either correctly or incorrectly with BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER, are often discriminated against by both the medical/psychiatric and psychological establishments.

It is very strange indeed, that even mental health professionals, who are supposed to be non-judgmental and provide professional treatment, will engage in maltreatment and discrimination of persons with the Borderline Personality Disorder dx.

Many unethical and/or inadequately trained mental health professionals will often label a so-called "difficult to treat" patient with a personality disorder dx, the most common of all misapplied/inappropriately used personality disorder diagnosis being Borderline Personality Disorder.

There is a big discussion within the board commissioned with formulating the new mental health diagnostic handbook, the DSM-V, due out in 2009 or 2010, with changing the name and diagnostic criteria of Borderline Personality Disorder, as they are acutely aware the currents problems the label creates. In fact, the discussion is leaning toward changing much of the criteria of the current personality disorder diagnosis categories.

I'm very lucky that thus far in my journey's, I haven't had anyone attempt to diagnose me with a personality disorder that I don't have (I don't have any, thank goodness). It's very hard to find good mental health professionals these days. </font>