The Role of Consistency in Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder

Yes! Absolutely but it requires treatment. Bpd does not mean someone has a few emotional issues. Bpd is major mental illness and they require targeted therapy like DBT for a minimum of 7–10 years before they will notice any major stability. I’ve known several pwbpd who have never stopped going to treatment because they will relapse and regress if they do. Bpd is not the only disorder that requires years of commitment to heal from! I’m personally a recovered addict (18 years sober) with significant war related ptsd. I still go to weekly NA 12 step groups and still see my therapist.

The only 3 things a borderline needs to do to recover is GO TO TARGETED TREATMENT LIKE DBT, GO TO TREATMENT CONSISTENTLY (you make every appointment like your life depends on it), AND TRY WITH A POSITIVE WILLING ATTITUDE. That’s literally all you have to do to heal!

There are several things that make pwbpd very hard to treat. They have trouble following through with things, when they don’t like something they run away or they turn a mole hill into a mountain, they can be extremely combative/ argumentative when they get upset, they have extreme black and white thinking, they often see themselves as the victim and everyone else as narcissistic abusers who stigmatize them, they constantly self sabotage, and the worst is magical…