Borderline Personality Disorder is a mental health condition that affects roughly 10,000,000 Americans, or more than three percent of the general population. Though it is considered to be two to three times more common than bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, it is far less understood and grossly under recognized. This can be attributed, in large part, to the heavy and cruel stigma that so often misrepresents people suffering from BPD as being manipulative and untreatable. As a result, there is little education about BPD and many patients are not properly diagnosed. In fact, they usually go undiagnosed or are misdiagnosed (often as being bipolar), leading to inappropriate and ineffective treatment protocols. The tragedy is that 10% of those with BPD die by suicide, most 'likely due to lack of information and silence surrounding the disorder. There is effective treatment for BPD, but people need to be educated, informed, and unafraid to access the correct therapy.
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