Comments on: Psychiatry Discriminates Against People with Borderline Personality Disorder

By: KM

KM — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 17:29:59 +0000

Don’t let any psychiatrist tell you that you have borderline personality disorder. It is a 100% pejorative diagnosis given to patients they consider ‘difficult’ or resistant to treatment. Complete bull****.

By: kevin blumer

kevin blumer — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:32:53 +0000

i got treated just a little bit diffrent my care coordanator actualy had a soft spot for me dont wory dont get that up north it takes a long time to be treated up here and there not that sympothetic and they dont like helping you till you do something the probelem with her having a soft spot created trouble in itslef because it affected her judgement or i belive that i was diagnosed with BPD back in july after many diagnoses

By: Moxie

Moxie — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:59:17 +0000

How insightful and witty. Really, tell us more.

By: Anna

Anna — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 06:40:46 +0000

The same happened to me with bad treatment at the hands of the health system & with incompetent therapist.they kept on acting shocked or over reacting to someone with intense angry outburst like it was a crime rather then see it as a feature.They say oh we’ve never dealt with someone like you and yet there are tones of angry & homicidal features written in the BPD literature.

They treat u like a prisoner needing to be told off & disciplined like you’ve done something wrong. Yet they are so not accountable for their own mistakes.The act like you have no rights or reason to be respected,they take away your voice as if your imput doesn’t need to be consulted with.

They all back each other and withdraw help & treat u like some dangerous insignificant that is meant to be feared.They say they are mindful but are so full of judgment. Time & time again they make the same mistakes and do not learn what part they keep playing in with their own counter transference.

Its funny they refer to themselves as experts in certain specialties and yet they are are equally broken & lost as the client.They cause just as much harm towards clients with their assumptions. The therapist also participate in stigma because of their own fears & inability to connect& pick up vital cues.

If the client doesn’t fit the kinds of diagnosis that they are used to, the therapist panics & make incompetent knee-jerk decisions & reactions. Therapist are at a loss outside their protective system of rules & regulation.Its understandable when clients take retribution on therapist to even up the humiliation & violation the therapist has cast.

Some therapists should be struck off and de-registered for the pain the have caused from their lack of skills.Too many go into the profession ill fit for helping.

By: KM

KM — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:47:29 +0000

Borderline personality disorder = drama queen asshole syndrome.

By: Distressed guy

Distressed guy — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:08:40 +0000

The situation is just as bad in the UK. I have virtually begged for CBT(which I have a little of, in a limited fashion), but in the end I got this initial help from an employment program and not my healthcare service in Bromley, England. Which is like: “yeah, great, some progress, but I’ve spent ten years talking to actual professionals and they were useless”

The attitude of professionals here is pretty much “I shouldn’t have to put up with these aggressive outbursts”. Which is fine, if you just work in an office, but naively I thought these guys were trained to deal with it, not to bundle people out of the door.
They are more concerned with their own feelings than yours, which seems strange. Why become a mental health professional if you can’t emotionally deal with unpleasant situations? Doesn’t it go with the territory?

They may find me unpleasant, but it seems they never work from the position of “whatever I feel, it’s worse for them, and I have a duty”. They have to protect themselves, but I’m not physically violent, just pretty bad tempered, and abrasive. Partly because my treatment has gone nowhere.

There needs to be a distinct advocacy and lobbying group for this…

By: LODI

LODI — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:49:15 +0000

What I just read is no new to me. I was diagnosed with BPD in 2003, at first I had no clue to what it was, as the doctor who was seeing me at the time came to the conclusion after yet another “behavioral test”. I had to find out through friends and the net. My friends were great help, most of them had suffered from depression and other psychological disorders. But when it came to my on psychiatrist, it seemed he was unwilling to learn, listen and participate. To him I was just the next patient on the daily list. Every visit, which I was paying out of my pocket as I was non insured, became even more traumatic than the disease itself. He sometimes would just go off on me because according to him; I was being difficult, and was not following his recommendations, stubborn and even stupid. I had several fights with him, because the medication he was prescribing were making me feel even worse. I was not only having emotional distress, but also my body was going through a roller coaster of gaining weight and losing weight, having no sexual desire, to becoming a maniac when it came to sex. After going through so much from the person who was suppose to help me, I finally took the matter into my own hands and asked for the director of the clinic and my social worker to be present at one of my doctors appointments. This was after I found out my own social worker, working alongside with my doctor had said at one point; Oh, Lodi is just being a drama queen as usual, do not pay much attention to what he says”. This was a betrayal of trust from both my social worker and my doctor. I still suffer from BPD and have yet to find the right combination of drugs, it doesn’t help I left the states 17 months ago, and where I live now mental health system is non existent. I must say though that Dialectical Behavior Therapy was great help for me, it gave me the tools to cope with BPD. And last but not least, I want to tell of of those reading, to never allow your doctor to become the judge and jury and executioner of you life, with time you know yourself better than any test they can perform on you, so demand for your rights, and for your voice and opinion to be heard.
Sincerely
Lodi Mirdita

By: Sue Clark-Wittenberg

Sue Clark-Wittenberg — Thu, 10 May 2007 11:44:01 +0000

I am Sue Clark Wittenberg from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada I was psychiatrized in Ontario for 18 years from 1972 to 1990.

I was given many different psychiatric labels and psychiatric medications.
I started to ask myself, what is this all about?

I decided to live without psychiatry in 1990, and for 17 years I have been
free from psychiatric wards and hospitals and psychiatric pills.

I have a huge website documenting my recovery as well as the work I do
to help end electroshock universally.

My website URL is:

By: MedStudent

MedStudent — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 04:17:59 +0000

Sure, Borderlines are discriminated against by many people in the profession. I’ve heard things such as “don’t have more than two in your practice” and other things from mental health professionals. But, I have also heard of people LIKING borderlines compared to bipolars or schizophrenics because they may eventually get better with intensive therapy and medication. Of course, it takes a long time and can be frustrating. But it depends on your definition of frustrating.

By: Call Cruncher

Call Cruncher — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:21:16 +0000

Thanks for all the great information on BPD. I think it is somewhat misunderstood and I appreciate the post.